"We wish to recruit you... because you are a professor". Not a sentence you hear much any more.

Issues of representation/localised dominating.

University SLT: "we can get two lecturers for that money"

University SLT: "we can get two lecturers for that money"

"We wish to recruit you... because you are a professor". Not a sentence you hear much any more.

What do mathematicians do before going to bed...? They play with an abacus, obviously.

university communications staff: "Today the federal government recognized U.C. Davis as among 'America's most elite universities'!"

Just done the latest Long Division piece for @mattchorley.bsky.social's programme - an amendment to the Iron and Steel bill in 1953, illustrated by a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1882. As Matt said, "you don't get that anywhere else, probably for good reason".

Every day's a school day.

This... the attacks on research funding and foreign students in US universities... all opportunities for us, not being taken.

Just done the latest Long Division piece for @mattchorley.bsky.social's programme - an amendment to the Iron and Steel bill in 1953, illustrated by a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1882. As Matt said, "you don't get that anywhere else, probably for good reason".

This co-edited volume, put together by Patrick Diamond and myself, examines the changing demographics, attitudes and electoral behaviours of Londoners over the last 50 years and considers the impact these changes have had on the policy agendas of the capital, past, present and future.

The building project lasted a lot longer than the Heath government. And still isn't functioning - a bit like the Heath government.