Universities are nowadays run by a cadre of administrators, many of whom are erstwhile academics who saw better opportunities for advancement away from teaching and research. Generally speaking they … (View Post)

Cummings goes Gramsci. (View Post)

The practical problem for the BBC is that there is no way to exclude non-licence-payers from watching or hearing without legal sanctions. Broadcasting is a pure public good in that sense. I think it … (View Post)

This needs a t test. (View Post)

A propos wines, today's discovery here (Scotland) is that the vine in our garden has produced clusters of dark grapes for the first time ever. They are small, the size of forest bilberries but f… (View Post)