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Sadly I’ve not been able to return to Michael Thompson’s book and its slot has been taken by other things that now need to be read more urg...

ISCRI @ Uclan

There’s an honourable tradition in the UK of the ‘new universities’ formed in the 1990s (and which replaced the previous bearers of that tit...

Life and action, penultimately

I’ve finally finished reading Thompson’s Life and Action on a train down to London and thence to the University of Hertfordshire (coffee wit...

The value of what’s local

Here’s a half formed thought. On Friday I saw the play ‘ Sabbat ’ at the Round auditorium of the Dukes Theatre in Lancaster. Based on the Pe...

Life and Action, again

I regret not getting back to Thompson’s Life and Action sooner because I think I am now beginning to get the hang of the style, at least, ...

Less than zero sum

After day of tackling student emails and administrative tasks, I set about - with a disappointing Scottish post credit-crunch gin – re-uplo...

Definite article

Waiting in the Preston station buffet post teaching, part way through a ten day period when I need to read about 150,000 words of student es...