• Attention, Love, and the Good: Towards...

  

  20th March 2026

  (Above is an audio recording of the blog post) It is almost a tautology to describe the Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (henceforth, SEND) system in England as in crisis. For many...
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• Book Review: The War on Science

  

  13th November 2025

  The War on Science edited by Lawrence M. Krauss Book cover for Krauss (2025). Taken from the Forum catalogue. Forum, 2025. ISBN: 9781800756182, Hbk. ISBN: 9781800756199, eBook. RRP: £16.39 /...
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• Book Review: It’s Tough at the Top

  

  23rd October 2025

  It's Tough at the Top by Anon. Book cover for Anon. (2025). Taken from the Erratum catalogue. Erratum, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-916541-22-1, Pbk. As our first anonymously authored book launches a new...
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• Polymathy Lost: On the politics of...

  

  21st July 2025

  (Melencolia I, Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)  What is to be done except learn all we can about everything we can? Education is a force of civilisation. Through it we have...
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• Medical Education and Huntington’s...

  

  21st February 2025

  "In the last 4 weeks, have you experienced any feelings of depression or apathy?" (short pause) "No." I’m a terrible liar. I’d recently had a fall out with a friend which had been...
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• The Educational Dimension of Acts of...

  

  11th February 2025

  Book cover for Wrońska & Stern (eds.) (2024). Taken from the Routledge catalogue. Routledge, 2024. ISBN: 9781032471693, Hbk. ISBN: 9781003386100, eBook.  RRP: £145.00 / £39.99,...
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• Use your leisure time wisely: the fatal...

  

  2nd December 2024

    All in the family “The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat” — Lily Tomlin. Now the above doesn’t reflect well on rats, which are complex and...
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• The selfless Teacher

  

  24th March 2023

  It was alarming, recently, when attending a conference, to hear, once again, a narrative concerning teachers needing to be ‘courageous’ and ‘selfless role-models’ for others. Language that,...
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• Enabling free inquiry together: A...

  

  18th December 2022

      This post can be downloaded as a PDF here     here are many gendered bodies in the world and ‘male’ and ‘female’ do not even begin the hard work of...
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• Civil Liberties & the Need for Lordean...

  

  10th October 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here.   ***   The British government doesn’t want us talking about race. More precisely: it doesn’t want us talking about structural and...
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• A Socialist in Disneyland

  

  20th June 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below:   Disneyland Paris celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Opened as ‘EuroDisney’ in 1992, the park is the...
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• The Ukraine Conflict: The Spectre of...

  

  5th April 2022

  This post is available to download here. ***   As I watch in horror the barbarity of the Ukrainian conflict unfold, I am reminded of the ineluctable charm of the notion of ‘fixed’...
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