The Plashing Vole

Good morning everybody. I should of course be marking… OK, one of the things that caught my eye this week was Diane Abbott MP's claim ...

You've probably never heard of Anderson Cooper. He's an American journalist and news anchor. Chiselled. Silver hair. Doesn't ran...

As you can see from this site , only fruity teenage girls pass A-levels. Or is it just that the entire news media only print pictures of fru...

Yes, the Catholic Church, in the form of the Bishop of Tenerife, has unearthed the guilty party in the sexual abuse scandals sweeping the w...

While Obama and most of the Democrats were trying to drag the USA into the civilized world by instituting at least basic healthcare for most...

Thought that would get your attention. Not my attitude, obviously, but that of General John Sheehan, former head of NATO. This American id...

One of the things I did in my introductory lecture on representation yesterday was to discuss a range of images of homosexuals across four d...

Aidan Moffat t was part of Arab Strap , a scuzzy Glasgow band which mixed pop tunes with self-loathing to (occasionally) winning effect (and...

I've just done a long and complicated lecture on the recession and its economic origins, while feeling horribly ill. I suspect the stu...

I'm not a fan of porn - I'm far too leftwing and ex-Catholic for that kind of nonsense. But I do worry that minority languages wil...

Over here, my friends use Pringles tubes to make novelty Melanie Philips Magazine Racks .  Over in Ventura (which looks innocently pleas...

Ben Goldacre directs our attention to a magical confluence of Republican politics, bigotry, Christianity and the worst of junk science. ...

Our politicians (in Britain and Ireland) are often shallow, careerist, greedy, arrogant and sometimes corrupt. However, it's sometimes i...

This is disgusting. At least, I think it is. As I departed Stoke-on-Trent yesterday, I passed a family outing. Standing next to his mother w...

Just a quick hello as I have a quiet five minutes. I've spent the day with Neal, Dan and Georgie, Dan's social worker. Well, girlfri...