Popular Posts

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Subfusc
    I'm just back from Examination Schools where I had to sit  for the first 30 minutes of the Finals paper I'm responsible for. With no...
  • Life is stranger than art
    It's funny how occasionally you come across little snippets of information that momentarily knock your otherwise stable image of the wo...
  • 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...
  • 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 ...
  • Is sociology useless?
    Something I've been meaning to blog about for a while. The Guardian 's Aditya Chakrabortty has been putting the boot into  sociolog...
  • Things fall apart Professor MacRae...
    What sociological connections did the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who died last month, have? Well, several actually. His first novel,...
  • Payment by results
    How depressing that - if we can believe the Guardian - a substantial proportion of teachers are in favour of payment by results. It just p...
  • 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...

Caveat Emptor

The opinions expressed on this page are mine alone. Any similarities to the views of my employer are completely coincidental.

Thursday, 27 April 2017

You can close your eyes

Little time to post at the moment as I try to get a few things shifted from my "to do" to my "done" list. But music is always good. I think this falls on the right side of the touching/sentimental divide. And I could listen to James Taylor play guitar all day.
Posted by Colin at 07:03

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)