The End of a Media Empire
The world of journalism has been shaken to its core, Felix investigates.
Glimpses of the past – the Imperial Institute
A look at our campus as it once was
MTSoc's "We Will Rock You" - rehearsed and performed within 27 hours
Between 19:30 on Saturday and 22:45 on Sunday, the cast of MTSoc's 24-hour musical threw themselves heart and soul into non-stop rehearsals of Ben Elton's (and Queen's) "We Will Rock You". If you want to take a look behind the scenes of the rehearsals, read through this liveblog (now closed).
Losing proportion
Today’s strident, aggressive atheists want to fit under the umbrella of ‘secular humanism’ – but do they deserve to?
Battle of Ideas comes to South Kensington
Gilead Amit interviews Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Ideas, ahead of its weekend of debates at the Royal College of Art
If you read nothing else this week...
Gilead Amit, Deputy Editor, kicks off our new feature with his favourite work of literature: De Profundis
Scientists rally to fight funding cuts
The Government’s Spending Review looms ever closer, and UK science research is in peril
Enough damn advice already!
Freshers’ Flu is a real phenomenon. What I have found really makes Freshers sick, however, is advice
The Icemen Cometh
The Winter Olympics have come to our television screens again, and Gilead Amit shares the view from his couch.
The abuse of sympathy
Gilead Amit and the abuse of sympathy
Underwriting as a hobby
As the publishing deadline rapidly approaches, the wells of inspiration rapidly run dry. What to say and how to say it? I'm sure I'll find a way round it...
Moderates must make their voices heard
The great ideological battle of these years of the long 21st Century is not between the liberal West and the fundamentalist Muslims. It is between the vast majority of peaceful Muslims and a small but ever-expanding radical fringe.