Indeed. The older I grow, the more respect I have for the likes of the Quakers and the Free Kirks and the more contempt for the servile, crawling Establishment churches. It was a great treat to visit… (View Post)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/07/everything-is-in-jeopardy-how-new-uk-visa-rules-are-tearing-families-apart Look at what that is doing to universities. Of course, you don't give a s… (View Post)

There is, of course, the small point about actually *starting* in academia. If I were a professor I'd be pretty pissed off at the way in which recruitment was so brutally being amputated at the … (View Post)

Surely that would fall within the data protection exemption for law enforcement agencies as the PO has rights of investigation and prosecution, and could always bring in the Police if needed. (Which,… (View Post)

Er, British taxpayers have been paying vast sums within my lifetime for slavery. Paid off in 2015, so presumably within your lifetime too, young HYUFD. Trouble is, the money went to the criminals. (View Post)