On March 23 this year, Employment Appeal Judge Mary Stacey overturned two previous Employment Tribunal rulings that my claim against Sheffield Hallam University of less favourable treatment as a part time employee could not be heard. In a judgment with … Read More »
That UK media are owned by billionaires and/or dependent on market forces is insufficiently appreciated. Even those who in theory grasp the significance of such ownership patterns and market dependence too often abandon their understanding in the face of relentless … Read More »
Saturday, June 15th, Mike and Sue hosted an afternoon garden party. Morning grey with threat of rain but by noon the day done good. Great food and drink, great company and the one bit of rain – shower causing temporary … Read More »
I’ve just taken delivery of an inflatable kayak, the Sevylor Colorado – well reviewed by experts and owners alike, and just £274 on eBay. It weighs fourteen-point-five kilos but that’s without paddle, air-pump, buoyancy aid and (my prime motive) camping … Read More »
I’ve admired Pink Floyd for over fifty years, since 1967’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn, but for most of that time neither knew nor cared what their politics were. That they were kind of radical in a petit-bourgeois way … Read More »
Part 3 opened with legislation designed both to outlaw social exclusion and effect a wider shift in how we view racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and medical model takes on disability. On both the social engineering and punitive fronts I drew … Read More »
* Fings ain’t wot they used to be. I’m old enough to recall postcards in shop windows that graced Room To Let ads with a “no blacks or Irish” caveat. The day I was eighteen, Michaelmas 1970, I did my … Read More »
A full time lecturer for most of the nineties (and part time for most of the eighties) I returned to academia in the mid noughties, including a long run as part time lecturer at Sheffield Hallam, 2006 to 2014. My … Read More »
Unless you’re an employment law geek, or fighting your employer over a zero hours contract, I doubt you’ve given much thought to the landmark judgments of Wippel v Peek and Matthews v Kent & Medway. I have though. In fact … Read More »