The Plashing Vole

Good afternoon all. I'm sitting in the office wondering if anything's happened this week and realising that actually, quite a lot ha...

Hello all. I've been back from my holidays for a week now, and I would like to tell you that it's great to be back. But that would b...

OK, it's not as long as its author envisaged , but I am going away – first to a conference and then for a holiday on the ould sod. The c...

All staff got this message this morning. Excellent. I'm all for it. We have a large proportion of BME students and manual staff ...

What a week… what a week in public life. A Chequers away-day for the government that sounded as awful as anyone else's away day, and cul...

A grateful nation woke this morning to the news that the new Severn Bridge had been secretly ceremonially renamed as the Prince of Wales Bri...

A Poem Listing All The Things Thrown At Me From His Apartment Window By A Stranger As I Walked By One Sunny Afternoon One earthenware teap...

Bit of an odd week. Firstly, let's talk about the weather. I hate it. I evolved, as far as the genealogy suggests, a waterproof skin p...

Funny week this week - lots and lots of the more formal end-of-year administration to do, much of it important but also quite tedious, along...

High up in my Faculty's main building perches a nest of vicious, self-interested killers. Motivated solely by their own survival, they s...

This week seems to have passed in a blur of marking and marking-related administration, but the weekend saw one of the highlights of the yea...

I watched the BBC adaptation of King Lear  the other night. I don't know if you are familiar with the plot, but a man incapable of r...

The annals of junk science are long and storied: one only has to look at the work of Ben Goldacre , David Colquhoun and Edzard Ernst ...