"I wish you'd told us that before": Sun readers (and former editor) wake up to buyer's remorse over Brexit

Providing perhaps a little schadenfreude-related light relief amid the seemingly endless EU referendum coverage was the news that The Sun columnist and former editor, Kelvin Mackenzie, was suffering from Brexit “buyer’s remorse”

Many a true word is spoken in jest, part two: more social media content that mocks, self-ridicules, and brings a smile to academia

Two years ago, Andy Tattersall highlighted those Twitter accounts that offered some light relief from the often all-too-serious world of academia. This 2018 instalment includes an account "sadly" overlooked last time, as well as moving beyond the Twittersphere to share some the best memes, videos, and more to provide sharp commentary on peer review, academic advisors, and altmetrics

Blessed are the Cheesemakers!

On ITV ‘News at Ten’ there used to be a tradition of having the vaguely amusing story at the end of the programmeto, it must be assumed, provide some light relief from the serious items. This blog will reverse that convention.Those who’ve seen the 1979 controversial religious satire,Monty Python’s Life of Brian,better known asLife of Brian, will know that‘Blessed are the Cheesemakers’is based on a mishearing of something said by an unseen preacher believed to be a messiah

Review: The nature of wishing

Review of the dance: The Nature of Wishing

Review: Electro-acoustic Music From the Netherlands 2000

Compact disc, PEM Productions PEM CD-1, 2000; available from Gaudeamus Foundation, Swammerdamstraat 38, 1091 RV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; telephone (+31) 20-694-7349; fax (+31) 20-694-7258; electronic mail [email protected]; Web www.gaudeamus.nl/

Living, and dying, by numbers

As a way of light relief, I wonder if anyone spots the song title that has been adapted in the title of this blog? It will be at the end of the blog and was a minor hit from an English synth-pop outfit who appeared at the tail-end end of decade in which fashion and music was eclectic and rarely dull. There can be no doubt that Covid-19 is exacting a dreadful toll in terms of the lives lost. Some media outlets suggest that the pandemic we’re experiencing may have resulted in 55% more deaths than has been announced in the daily Government statistics; As the article explains, deaths occurring outside of hospitals in England and Wales for the week ending on April 17th was 22,351, over 50% higher than the 14,451 actually announced by the Department of Health

"I wish you'd told us that before": Sun readers (and former editor) wake up to buyer's remorse over Brexit

Providing perhaps a little schadenfreude-related light relief amid the seemingly endless EU referendum coverage was the news that The Sun columnist and former editor, Kelvin Mackenzie, was suffering from Brexit “buyer’s remorse”

Everest, the Final Furlong: Completing a PhD

This presentation is about completing an academic mountain; the personal intellectual Everest of a PhD. Each doctorate is different, that is part of its purpose, but I hope any references to my own experience will apply to yours. I will try not to employ the Everest metaphor to the point of oxygen starvation, but hope that some references will prove helpful. Otherwise this presentation is something of a hybrid, between the closing section of ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’ on Radio 4 and a Dublin literary pub tour