I am fortunate(?) to be spared the whole university HR faux-concern ‘redeployment’ thing: wherein imminently redundant, highly-qualified and competent senior laboratory postdocs are given less than 24 hours (which, on […]

I’m currently in Leicester, and this week caught a news story in its newsprint organ – the Leicester Mercury. I’ll come to that shortly; but first, it has put me […]

A while back I did some warbling on Early Day Motions, that parliament facility for MPs to bring all manner of matters to the attention of The House, often for […]