The Plashing Vole

Here's a piece which will no doubt be twisted by the local paper. But no matter. Who are the new Vice-Chancellors? In the old days, th...

This review of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age   will be appearing on the excellent LSE Review of Books page shortly, but in case you don...

Presumably you know that the heir to the British throne is prone to writing highly-opinionated letters to government ministers, despite the ...

You might know that one of my hobbies is photography: landscapes, architecture, fencing and occasionally events I'm at. While I've n...

So last week after a series of hilarious disasters which involved my distinguished colleague trying to pee into a bottle rather than drive t...

Hi everyone. For a change, I'm not ranting about the inequities of the world today. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow, probably. N...

I read recently that Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail , multimillionaire, scourge of the European Union, stern moralist and famed sw...

Valentine's Day again… and if you only make the effort to express emotion once a year then you're me you should rethink your relati...

One of my favourite thinkers in the educational world sent me a link to this pungent piece of polemic which I thought you might like to pon...