Yorkshire coast yesterday
6
May
Author Archives: steel city scribe
Sutton Bonington yesterday
2
May
Yesterday, leaving for another day the fourth dark episode of the ever popular but frankly grim Tales from the Precariat series – aka Roddis v Sheffield Hallam – I drove Jackie to a teaching day on one of wealthy University … Read More »
Roddis v Sheffield Hallam: Part 3
28
Apr
* 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 »
Roddis v Sheffield Hallam: Part 2
27
Apr
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 »
Roddis v Sheffield Hallam: Part 1
26
Apr
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 »
Why Jeremy Hunt still has a job
25
Apr
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 »
On Douma and media deception
25
Apr
Two good pieces in two days on the media, apropos Douma. One came the other day from Caitlin Johnstone in the Medium The other is today’s Media Lens post – first of a two parter. It starts like this: UK … Read More »
That T.F.I.F. feeling
25
Apr
Royal herring …
25
Apr
… also available in red. Such a beautiful moment… Such a beautiful moment… Posted by JOE.ie on Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Why the West hates Putin (interim post)
24
Apr
This is not part three of Why the West hates Putin. Parts one and two are already posted, while the third is in the making. Rather, this is a statement from Alexander Shulgin, head of Russia’s delegation to the UN’s … Read More »