21 October 2011
Geniuses should be reclusive
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‘And there are other things. I couldn’t go to discos to meet girls because my ears are very sensitive to noise and they hurt.’ (Low toleranc...
20 October 2011
New definitions for ‘saving’ and ‘planning’
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As I have previously said on this blog, the state now appears to feel free to change legislation in ways that are effectively retrospective,...
19 October 2011
Oxford Professorship in Psychology: not even shortlisted
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In response to my application for the Oxford Professorship in Psychology I received a brief rejection letter from the University's Pers...
14 October 2011
The real reasons for a ‘failure to fulfil’
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copy of a letter I was talking with Fabian, and asked him why he thought it was that there was such a resistance to the idea of reparation b...
13 October 2011
An uncomplaining, unfrustrated genius
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Simon Norton is a former child prodigy, whose story superficially resembles mine. A book about him, The Genius in the Basement by Alexande...
09 October 2011
Notes on my CV
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Herewith the ‘Notes on my CV’ referred to in the previous post. In interpreting a CV it is normal to consider only what a person has been pe...
05 October 2011
Oxford’s Professorship in Psychology
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There follows the text of a letter of application which I made for a Psychology Professorship at Oxford University last year. The ‘notes on ...
29 September 2011
No better way of saying it
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Someone recently wrote the following to me: I guess the fact that you insist that you should have a different social position than the one y...
16 September 2011
Tunnelling out of prison with a spoon
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What was unacceptable to people in my attitude to my situation when I was thrown out at the end of the ruined education is still unacceptabl...
08 September 2011
Michael Gove and the bear pits
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The right every child deserves, to be taught properly, is currently undermined by the twisting of rights by a minority who need to be taught...
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