Course leader and Senior Lecturer in English Literature. Victorian lit and culture, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool University Press, 2028).
Christopher Pittard
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The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo
Cardiff was once a great university, and U of Wales once a visionary university system. This is grim, the senior management and bosses at Cardiff are (rich) vandals, and the Cardiff uni in Kazakhstan stuff is like a David Lodge novel
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Look at these! Also, I didn't realise that Dover had their own edition of *The Mystery of a Hansom Cab* (I used the Hogarth edition for *Purity and Contamination*) but it's not at all surprising.
Hey! Some of us like our Portsmouth graduates!
Anyway, my manifesto for bringing back *Doctor Who*:
- Go back to horror and the uncanny.
- No wisecracking. It's not a sitcom.
- Get rid of the grinding orchestral schmaltz and bring in more avant-garde soundtracks. The show should sound weird.
- Cliffhangers.
Have been advised that I might want to head home earlier today because there's a Farage riot planned for central Portsmouth. But these are the guys who want to make the streets safe, right?
