Friends in HE: mind you check in today with any international students you have dealings with.
(That goes double if you're the kind of person whose right to exist here isn't currently being called into question.)
Is anyone trying to organise some kind of broad-based counter-protest following the fascist riots?
No criticism of the folk who've been showing up to anti-racist actions in recent years, but these actions have been shrinking to an ever smaller core.
I am not very good at sums, but it strikes me that if you can win your employees' love for an average sum of just under £7 per year, you are operating a very efficient love machine indeed.
New-Cleckit Dominie
New-Cleckit Dominie
New-Cleckit Dominie
The people have spoken.
When a rally's called, where are the major political parties? The churches? The people who wouldn't call ourselves "activists" but who recognise fascism as a basic betrayal of human decency?
And what is being done, or can be done, to get those people back?
Just had a lovely email exchange with an (ex-)student who turned up to my office in a lather every semester convinced they were at risk of failing.
They have just learned, to my entire lack of surprise, that they will graduate with a First. They are quite chuffed.
Some days this job is worth it.
While we're on the subject of Columba: I don't know whether he's ever been nominated as the patron saint of proof-readers, but if he hasn't then he should be.
Thinking about it, he could also have been the referee on a maths paper.
"There's a missing i."
"Are you going to tell me where it's missing from?"
"No."
Happy feast day of St Columba to all who celebrate.
Here is the future patron saint of Scotland arriving as a migrant in a small boat.
(Frank Brangwyn; artuk.org/discover/art...)
