The Plashing Vole

The Mantra of the Conference Organiser Death to you, late abstract submitter Death to you, abstract changer Death to you, disorganised ...

The political news of the week seems to be Two Kitchens Bad , Three Names Good . In short, Grant Shapps MP is in trouble again. As I helpe...

I'm having to learn iMovie so I can publicise the work done by my colleagues, guest speakers and hated rivals fellow researchers in the...

St. David's Day has just passed, and lots of newspapers with space to fill used it as an opportunity to create a canon of Welsh writers....

Sadly, academia is no better than the rest of society when it comes to institutional misogyny: it takes five minutes over coffee to hear the...

Last week we had the enormous pleasure of Eimear McBride visiting us. I put her debut novel A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing on a first-year c...

Just a brief one, and definitely no pictures. Blogger's owners Google has announced that sexually explicit blogs will be forcibly mad...

I'm desperate to tell you about brilliant author Eimear Mcbride's visit to the university, but I haven't time yet to edit all th...

Last night I went to my local theatre for an evening with Polly Toynbee and David Walker, promoting their new book Cameron's Coup , basi...

Perhaps this is a little reductive, but given the confluence of sexual predators such as Jimmy Saville, Tory-donating tax avoiders and the ...

I'm marking. It's not really #markinghell in terms of quality, merely in terms of volume. I have to say that the proportion of cheat...