The Plashing Vole

I appear to have broken one of my friends, a colleague and a co-writer! I've been pretty quiet this week because I've been working...

The tech industry is the future. It pumps out shiny, sleek machines on which we can do futuristic things. The fact that most of these thing...

You have all signally failed to improve this benighted country in my absence. Though you did get rid of Baroness Warsi and a government min...

I'm off on my holidays this evening. I know. I'm not a natural holidayer. I don't have the relaxed and sunny demeanour of...

Last week the delightful Aditya Chakrabortty of The Guardian   reviewed the government's plans for funding Higher Education. I won'...

Now and then I get a slightly exhausted senior manager on the phone, asking me in for a little chat about whatever the local rag has stolen ...

We can all be forgiven for thinking the world's going to hell in a handcart. South Sudan, Syria, Palestine, Ukraine to name just a few p...

Life in the new Faculty is less than halcyon. It feels more like this. And yet somehow you just know that management thinks everything...

OK, well over 99% of you won't give a damn about this one, but I need a mini-Rant. I've just read the latest edition of The Sword ...

So this was in the local rag recently: The 'anger', it turns out, is entirely felt by one man who feels so strongly about it t...

Today  Programme Broadcast Running Schedule date: any 6.00 a.m. Headlines 6.03-6.15 UKIP-voting farmers demanding more Europ...