Monday, 16 December 2013

Employability (again). It’s not about jobs: it’s about “embedding entrepreneurial thinking in your curriculum.” That's a quote.

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Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post about how I was required to spend an hour-long seminar in a history course at my university to t...
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Monday, 9 December 2013

On complaints to the BBC about the coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela, by fans of the sitcom Mrs. Brown's Boys

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Apparently some 850 people have complained to the BBC about the corporation’s coverage of the news of the death of Nelson Mandela, many of...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

The Gettysburg Address & Abraham Lincoln’s debt to Daniel Webster

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If you’ve clicked on this blog post then there’s a good chance you’ll already know that today is the 150 th anniversary of Abraham Lin...
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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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