The debate about the drug ecstasy and how it should be classified has been raging in academic circles for many years – with each new study eliciting frenzied headlines from a media hungry to find a new scapegoat for all the world’s ills.

The Zionist Masquerade, a book on Britain and the origins of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict by Dr James Renton, Senior Lecturer in History, has received high praise in the United States.

Alastair Crosby, 26, from Wigan, is indulging his passion for history at Edge Hill – all thanks to Clearing.

An Edge Hill academic will discuss the parallels between the murder of Liverpool youngster Rhys Jones in 2007 and another murder of a child in the same city in similar circumstances in 1883, when he appears on Radio 4’s The Long View.