The Thesis Whisperer 22/02/2012 Academic publishing is presented as a universal good, without regard to how the publishing system operates. While publications are an essential addition to the CV in today’s competitive job market, the ethics of publishing need to be considered too. … Continue reading
Is this perhaps the most significant piece of news coming out of Greece in the last few days? greekleftreview.wordpress.com Greek hospital now under workers’ control Posted: February 6, 2012 Submitted for publication by working class self organisation at libcom.org on Feb 5 2012 19:20 Health workers … Continue reading
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Our Man in Havana « LRB blog private | 10 February 2012 | www.lrb.co.uk Alan Gross, a 62-year-old US citizen, has been imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009. He fell foul of the authorities while working for USAID, liaising with Cuba’s small Jewish community. … Continue reading
24 January 2012 | history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com On Copyright and Capital Well I was going to join today’s ‘internet strike’ and close down the site for the day in solidarity with the movement against SOPA – the proposed US Stop Online Piracy Act with … Continue reading
Government faces calls to overhaul visa rules for foreign performersDemands of ‘creative and sporting’ category of points-based immigration system leading to cancelled events, say organisers…
…since 2008 an audacious project to change the future for Raploch’s young people by immersing them in classical music has been working with 80% of children at nursery and primary schools. And now a new report commissioned by the Scottish … Continue reading
Ed Miliband has come out fighting in today’s Times arguing that “a great deceit designed to damage Labour has led to profoundly misguided and dangerous economic decisions”. The truth is uncomfortable for the Government. Ed Miliband writes (£): “What is … Continue reading
Subject: Senior moment – A 98 year old woman in the UK wrote this to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the Times. Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for … Continue reading
Politics on the brain Conservatives are dinosaurs. That, at least, was the implication of a story on Radio 4 the other morning. Guest editor Colin Firth (himself a disenchanted Lib Dem, though Mr Darcy was undoubtedly a Tory) had asked … Continue reading