Trying to do a wee bit of reading around for a conference paper and my god I can see and feel my access to scholarship shrinking, like in real time. It's mad how quickly and easily this stuff can vanish or become an unjustifiable cost.
The phone is *still* ringing in the Department for Education, and at this point it's an office joke about refusing to pick it up.
This lot is so bad at higher education they have even managed to make the head of universities UK lose her cool, and her literal job is to interact with DfE types.
{this is news that Labour will, yet again, be cutting the measly block grants for high cost subjects, good luck chemistry colleagues).
In the course of today, His Majesty’s Government will do both of the following things:
- moan loudly about X and blame it for the grotesque scenes in Belfast;
- create huge amounts of content for X to monetise
To govern is to choose.
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"This committee’s report would be terrible in the best of times, with its secret evidence and embarrassingly weak arguments compounded by a call for administrative repression... to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion."
I guess on balance Berkeley and Hume are "OK", both held to some very unpalatable or paternalistic views of others though; that ain't really my bag. Locke though, Locke can do one.
It's funny because I write about all three of these guys, but I don't want to be like them, that'd be weird.
Ah crap I knew it. I am NOT like Locke though, NO WAY.