28 June 2012
Withering faster on the vine
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After some years or decades of ‘withering on the vine’ it was announced first that state pensions would be means-tested, and then that the ‘...
27 June 2012
More on lucid dreams and the BBC
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text of a recent letter to an academic I have just sent you a link to our comments on the BBC’s omission of any mention of me from their ...
26 June 2012
Academia and the IPR: not mutually exclusive
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There has always been a tendency to represent working in (or being associated in any way with) my incipient independent academic organisatio...
22 June 2012
Worthless ‘degrees’, pointless ‘research’
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I wrote previously about how socialism had been a bad influence in my life until I got a very modest amount of support in setting up my inde...
19 June 2012
Lucid dreams
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My colleague Dr Charles McCreery recently sent the following comment to the BBC in connection with a page about lucid dreaming on their onl...
07 June 2012
State pension: not enough to live on
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The number of older people who will be forced to pay their own care bills will double over the next 20 years to more than a quarter of a mil...
04 June 2012
Social engineering and the Thought Police
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The following is an extract from an article by Professor Max Hammerton* entitled ‘The Thought Police’ in a recent issue of the Oxford Magazi...
03 June 2012
Barking up the wrong tree
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Nick Clegg vows to tackle Britain’s lack of social mobility Nick Clegg said it was a ‘national scandal’ that some of the country’s brightes...
26 May 2012
The bell curve: one third are ‘special needs’?
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In relation to my recent post regarding the shifting of the bell curve , it is interesting to note that there has recently been a spate of n...
21 May 2012
Existential urgency and commercialism
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And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness, for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he posses...
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