Category Archives: Universities

‘Rolling Towards the Police in your Wheelchair’

Posted on December 14, 2010 by stuartelden

This is the BBC interview with Jody McIntyre that has produced such anger. Lots of people complained. The BBC has apparently responded – details here; another reply here. China Mieville responds here.

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Advice for PhD students

Posted on December 14, 2010 by stuartelden

Bradley L. Garrett offers some interesting, useful, and sometimes funny, advice here.

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How to get an academic job

Posted on December 13, 2010 by stuartelden

Some interesting advice from Tim Morton here – a sequence of posts so scroll down to see more.

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Peter Hallward on the London protests

Posted on December 13, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Hallward on the protests last week – here.

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Slogans from the London demo

Posted on December 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Find them here – good, bad and ugly alike (via here).

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Police violence yesterday

Posted on December 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Nina Power alerted me to this story about yesterday [see also here]. This should be much higher up the news headlines. The Guardian is still leading with the royal issue, but in its live blog it now reports that:- The police watchdog … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the fees issue

Posted on December 10, 2010 by stuartelden

The Liberal Democrats justify breaking their pre-election pledge by claiming that compromises have to be made in coalition. But the Liberal Democrats were never going to form an administration on their own. They therefore knew that they would not be … Continue reading →

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Leaving Seattle with a better draft

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Time to leave Seattle. It’s been a good, but busy, six weeks. I had great side trips to Vancouver (twice), Victoria, Eugene, and Columbus. University of Washington has a great geography department and it’s been good to get to know people … Continue reading →

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Literary protests – image from Wu Ming

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

Wu Ming kindly sent me a link to a better picture of the literary themed protests.

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Student Protests – K-Punk on the media; Wu Ming on the literature

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

K-Punk offers a sharp analysis of last week’s events here, along with some good discussion of the mainstream media’s take on it all. I particularly enjoyed this line: It looks as if the situation might be starting to dawn on … Continue reading →

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