I’ve been spending quite a lot of time in Leicester in the last six months or so, and, as I’m not working, and because I like writing – and because […]

Imagine how appalled some people might be were I to write to the effect that ‘… once again a senior ambassador of this country returns from continental Europe bragging at […]

I have spent a discombobulating day…. filling in the most ridiculously constructed application form I have ever (in my limited application form-filling experience) encountered. Once again, I’m driven to question […]

Just a reminder for this coming Saturday 11th February… You can find more info at freethoughtblogs, at "_One Law for All_ ":http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/, and at Facebook. Have a good day…

Have you ever read Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses? Though it was about twenty years ago, I recollect enjoying a vibrant, florid, atmospheric novel. (The lasting image I have is […]

Although I sometimes choose The Observer for my Sunday world-catch-up, I have long since decided to skip quickly past Barbara Ellen, who is bizarrely afforded a whole page for her […]

We bloggers are, I consider, fortunate to be afforded the privilege to air our thoughts and interests and opinions on this platform for free (- provided we take heed of […]

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 […]