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 »
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 »
… also available in red. https://www.facebook.com/manstuff/videos/1957352467632523/?t=5
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 »
This from Alison Banville of BSNEWS, a British journalist just back from Damascus: I just watched Ben Griffin’s speech at the Don’t Bomb Syria demo. Last Monday, when I was told there was another demonstration to protest the air strikes, … Read More »
In an international survey by WIN/Gallup the USA came out tops. And it can’t be laid at Trump’s door. The poll was in 2013, and worth checking out for other of its findings.
They say Housman was clinically depressed when he penned the sixty-three poems of his anthology, A Shropshire Lad. But isn’t depression an entry level requirement for poets? Loveliest of trees is the best known poem from those blue remembered hills … Read More »