Wednesday, 14 November 2012

The Marketisation of Higher Education: A lesson from the seminar room

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Update: The Times Higher Education asked me to do a shorter version of this post for their comments section.  It is here: http://www.times...
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Monday, 5 November 2012

Remember, remember the fifth of November; or, understanding some aspects of the historical origins of the US Presidency; or, why Americans are roundheads

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Newly reposted and slightly revised for 5 November 2014, as many US voters once again proved once again how very different they are. This...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Disney & the Future of Star Wars; or, how about a Sci-Fi Mash-Up with Star Trek, Dr. Who, & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

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Update: 4 May 2020. None of the stories below was commissioned by Disney and will not be appearing at a cinema near you any time soon. Nev...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012

The Rhetoric of David Cameron’s Speech to the Conservative Party today at the Birmingham Party Conference; or, the Conservative PC Lies in Scameron’s Ansprache to the Lizard People today at the Nuremberg Rally.

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The Tories, with their US Republican ideological soulmates, long-ago came up with the term “Political Correctness” to describe liberal-left...
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012

A Glossary of Terms for a Tory History Textbook; or, how to teach freshers historiographical semiology

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With the new term starting soon, my university campus is undergoing its annual replenishment with fresh-faced first-years (albeit fewer of t...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Defining Nick Clegg (or at least a kind of Cleggous phenomenology)

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So Nick “Your Vote” Clegg has been at it again.  You know, lying, backsliding, you know the drill.  Longish ago, in the general election, hi...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

A long tweet to Nick Robinson

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Dear @bbcnickrobinson, I see you’ve taken to using the word “efficiencies” for government cuts, 1/10 @bbcnickrobinson so I would like t...