Politics

Nottingham v-c warns that academics may face prosecution. Melanie Newman reports

Martin Mills finds an idealist at the apocalypse, but asks why one of our Dalai Lamas is missing

Mona Siddiqui, one of the UK's leading commentators on Islam, is driven by intellectual curiosity, religious belief and a desire to engage. Hannah Fearn writes

Andreas Hess shivers at a glimpse of our future

The author of a revisionist study of Irish republicans defends his research against critics who claim inaccuracy. John Gill reports

Barbed wire, dispossession and fear: Laleh Khalili on liminal lives spent in an ever-shrinking ghetto

Spectator columnist says politics department delivers propaganda. Melanie Newman reports

'Living' multipartner programme to tackle climate change nets £1bn in funding. Zoe Corbyn reports

Strategies to deal with global warming must embrace all disciplines and approaches, not merely the technological, says Mike Hulme

In the heyday of campus radicalism, protests took place at the drop of a hat and Marxism ruled. Today's young are quieter and as likely to vote Tory as for the Left. There's still commitment but, as Tariq Tahir finds, now it's to getting a good job

The new principal of St Andrews has made history. Olga Wojtas meets a terrorism expert from Harvard

Academics who are sole entrants in their category admit to feeling the pressure. Zoe Corbyn reports

Alex Danchev finds law and war are indivisible

Three academics at the University of Nottingham argue that the recent arrests of a postgraduate student and a staff member herald an erosion of civil liberties and a clear threat to legitimate research

Postgraduate and employee are arrested over research material. Melanie Newman reports

Radhakrishnan Nayar on 'de-Westernisation'

Stephen Gundle on the tales a beloved wooden puppet has to tell about his creator's country

The ban on performance-boosting substances in sport is a self-satisfied nonsense, argues historian Geoffrey Alderman in a fortnightly series allowing academics to step outside their area of expertise

Study says consensus in political science makes rankings useful tool for RAE. Zoe Corbyn reports

Charles Townshend is taken aback by a combative and oddly incurious survey of the enemies within