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The Great British Class Fiasco

It's been a bad week for my blood pressure. I'm trying manfully to ignore the hooplah arising from MT shuffling off her mortal coil...
Open letter to Prof. Richard Wilkinson & Prof. Kate Pickett

Dear Professors Wilkinson and Pickett You don't know me and are unlikely to read this letter. Even if you do, I know you won't r...
On metaphors - cultural and social capital again

Recently, as you no doubt know, I've been beating up on the use of the term "capital" in phrases like "cultural capital...
We all know social mobility has declined right? Well no, it probably hasn't.

If you study social mobility you are pretty much forced to study it through the rear view mirror, looking back, as it were, over your should...
Media Advisor

Perhaps Jeremy Corbyn should give Hans Rosling a call (after he has done his choir practice).
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To paraphrase Amos Oz: tragedy is what happens when right is in head on collision with right. Ben Goldacre again provides a great link (whe...
Liber Niger Procuratorum

I've been involved in the last couple of years, to a greater or lesser extent, in three investigations of student misconduct. All had on...
Μολὼν λαβέ

So the guys over at GBCS have finally got around to responding, in a piece titled ' On social class, anno 2014 '. Obviously th...
Clarence Rook's Hooligan Nights

Clarence Henry Rook's Hooligan Nights (1899) purports to be a piece of late Victorian London underworld reportage. It is not clear tha...
Writing a Master's Thesis

It's that time of year when my MSc students are starting to seriously worry about choosing a dissertation topic. With that in mind here ...

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Friday, 18 March 2016

Friday music

The weekend's here; time for some musical genius: Michael Hedges' cover of She Drives me Crazy.

Posted by Colin at 10:53

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