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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Hey! Some of us like our Portsmouth graduates!
We love you: that’s why we’re here. My celebration of 40 years of A Very Peculiar Practice - with contributions from Peter Davison, Andrew Davies, Barbara Flynn and Davids Tucker and Troughton. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/71b8b80...
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.
I'm not convinced that Russell T Davies revived *Doctor Who* in the first place. In early nuWho you'd get a run of mediocre RTD episodes and wonder if it was really worth it, and then a Gatiss or Shearman or Moffat would turn up to bring you back in.
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?
The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo
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.