Monday, 22 July 2013

A Question for Royal Baby Reporters; Or, What Have I Become?

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Update on 4 May 2020 I originally wrote this post as a kind of allegory of what I saw more and more of during my later days at Swansea Un...
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Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Why I don’t hate the Boden Bumpkins; Or, why I really quite like Mumford & Sons

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The appearance of Mumford & Sons at Glastonbury pleased a lot of people, but, if my twitter timeline is anything to go by, it also gener...
Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Cascading emails; Or, bizguistics and power in modern academia

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The other day, everyone in arts and humanities and adult continuing education at my university received from our head of sector a remarkably...
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Saturday, 5 January 2013

How to create the Big Society in 2013; or, why not open your own workhouse, hospital, or private school?

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Pity poor David Cameron. During the General Election he was famously unable to explain the meaning of his Big Society idea, even to fellow T...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013

My new day with the Daily Telegraph: or, how to tell lies and influence people

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One day on my summer hols eighteen months ago here in France I found myself unable to obtain my usual Guardian, and the only British newspa...
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...