Category Archives: Politics

The Woolf Inquiry report on Libya and the LSE, and in particular Saif Gaddafi’s plagiarised PhD thesis, has been published. There are some good questions at New APPS

I’ve just been sent this story of a report on the Ben Gurion University political science department. This is a department I know quite well, having visited it twice to give talks. The report is critical and suggests closing the … Continue reading →

Here are a few things I found interesting, in among all the stuff being written. I’m sure I’ve missed some other important things, so feel free to use the comments. Paul Rosenberg at Al Jazeera on the UC Davis events, … Continue reading →

An excellent piece on ‘Pepper Spray’ and the Scoville scale at Berfrois. A brief excerpt, but do look at the whole thing: We’ve taken to calling it pepper spray, I think, because that makes it sound so much more benign than … Continue reading →