Hyman Frankel’s experiences of seeing Blackshirt marches led him to join the Young Communist league. Photograph: Private Collection Hyman Frankel, my friend and comrade for 40 years, who has died aged 91, will probably be best remembered for Out of This World: An Examination of Modern Physics and Cosmology, published in 2003. In this book, [...]
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Government ‘rejects’ graduate tax plan
Last week Vince Cable said he was persuaded of the benefits of a graduate tax to replace tuition fees. Photograph: Kevin Coombs/REUTERS The coalition government was today said to be split over how to charge graduates for their degrees after a senior Conservative source was reported to have dismissed plans favoured by the skills secretary, [...]
CUP: NASCAR Fines Drivers
NASCAR sources have confirmed to SPEED.com an Associated Press report that at least two of the sport’s premier drivers have been fined for comments that the sanctioning body viewed as detrimental to the sport. The names of the drivers have not been confirmed and apparently will not be released, but the AP report said one [...]
