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Academic Research

Tinker, Tailor, Publisher, Spy

BY GLORIA MOSS & NIALL McCRAE How Robert Maxwell created the academic peer review system Publication of research results, theoretical propositions and scholarly essays is not a free-for-all. As shown by the dogmatism around climate change and Covid-19, sceptics struggle to get papers in print. The gatekeeper is the peer-review system, which people take for granted as a screening process to ensure rigour in scientific … Continue reading Tinker, Tailor, Publisher, Spy

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Ideas

Gifts that Keep On Giving

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” ― George Orwell, 1984 ‘Just imagine’, a particular kind of civil servant drooled in 1985, ‘if we could create a message capturing device with which we could trace miscreants and get to know what they were planning and thinking’. ‘Even better than that,’ his colleague retorted, ‘we could … Continue reading Gifts that Keep On Giving

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Politics

The SNP Russian Adventure

BY VADIM STELKOV It seems to be the season for blaming Russia for everything. And no doubt, though it may come as a shock to civvy street, there is substance in the losing Democrats’ claims of the US elections being disrupted by Putin’s Russian hackers – and Obama political appointees in US intelligence agencies have confirmed as much. The extent of Russia’s hacking is a … Continue reading The SNP Russian Adventure

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