The Arts and Humanities Research Council links to the Conservative party ‘big society’ idea continue.

Thom Brooks provides some updates on his blog; Stefan Collini discusses in The Guardian here. Brooks organised a petition which you can sign here; but this does not seem to have made a difference. He’s now urging people to write to the AHRB direct. I’ve just done so and think it is important that as many people as possible take the trouble to do this.