Cancelling Gladstone
Last weekend a statue of Edward Colston was torn down in Bristol and thrown into the River Avon. Colston was involved in the Royal...
Like Black Coffee, Like Nicotine
It’s the smell. It is the smell that divides smokers from non-smokers. Smokers love the smell of cigarettes. Non-smokers hate it. Don’t...
Online Teaching and the Coronavirus Outbreak
One of the consequences of the Co-Vid 19 outbreak is that many of us in education are being harshly introduced to online teaching and...
Time
Maybe, no…., probably due to my dance with the devil in 2017 I’ve been in a reflective mood for much of the last three years....
Why Did Generation X Become So Angry?
Born in 1970 I am slap bang in the middle of Generation X, no hint of an overlap with either the Baby Boomers or the Millennials. I’ve...
What Now for Liberalism?
Liberalism is a loaded term; it means very different things to different people. It certainly means very different things on either side...
Academia as a Creative Industry: A Musical Analogy
We don’t often think of academia as a creative industry, yet it is just that. Research is where the most obvious parallel exists, where...
Reflections of an Accidental Academic
Thirty years ago this month as I started my undergraduate degree I entered a higher education institution for the first time. Thirty...
6th Annual UW Commercial Real Estate Symposium on PropTech
Link to the video of the 6th Annual Commercial Real Estate Symposium at UW which examined the issue of PropTech;...