I’m not really a fan of Galloway – far less of Donald Trump – but yesterday George expressed my sentiments with ninety percent accuracy. But a facebook exchange today adds a little nuance to the picture. Here’s a snippet: In … Read More »
Today Kaye has alerted me to this, on the UCU website. The screengrabbed image links to the page in question. My thanks to those who have supported me in this long struggle.
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 what looks set … Read More »
I don’t write much on the Labour Party or antisemitism and when I do it tends to be prompted by their having merged, zionist apologetics finding synergy with Doing For Jezza. Even then it’s usually been because that synergy folded … 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 »
Remember that spat last August between UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Professor Stephen Hawking? Stephen, sadly, is no longer with us but Jeremy, sadly, is. Thanks to Didi Cooper for the FB alert. I wrote last month, apropos the UK … Read More »