Next week

NEWS.

Birmingham axes 150 jobs as it repositions itself for the 21st century.

FEATURES.

Are people naturally peaceful? Military historian Michael Howard discusses the question as part of our coverage of next week's Anglo-American conference of historians.

BOOKS.

Terry Eagleton's The Idea of Culture: "Culture and crisis go together like Laurel and Hardy". Focus: music, and film studies.

RESEARCH.

The human genome sequenced.