The UK educational reforms, with their utilitarian emphasis on Science and Engineering, demonstrate no understanding of what makes for a good science research environment. The meeting of speculative and experimental sciences, as well as other areas of the humanities like literature, creates a gene
As Belgium is on the brink of collapse, some talk of a second Yugoslavia, partly in jest, partly not. It has been violent before. Will it be violent again? Philip Ebels rode his bicycle along the language frontier in order to find out.
We revisit an article from 2007 meditating on the export of the possible break up of Belgium back across the channel to the country responsible for Belgium's creation in the first place