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The Plashing Vole: August 2014
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Plashing Vole – y traethodydd. Thursday, 28 August 2014. I appear to have broken one of my friends, a colleague and a co-writer! I've been pretty quiet this week because I've been working really hard on a conference paper (and hopefully journal article). The conference is on The Politics and Law of Doctor Who. Its energetic progenitor Danny Nicol has even set up a blog. Well in advance to kick ideas around outside the closed circle of academia, which is the kind of thing that makes me happy. In actual fa...
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The Plashing Vole: January 2015
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Plashing Vole – y traethodydd. Wednesday, 28 January 2015. But chiefly on my mind today is George RR Martin. I'm supervising an undergraduate dissertation on Game of Thrones. Which means I've had to read them all (I know, feel my dedication) and I'm not happy. After a while, it gets a bit repetitive. And by 'a while', I mean one volume of the seven (so far). Links to this post. Thursday, 22 January 2015. Synergising our core products. Links to this post. Monday, 19 January 2015. To start 1st October 2015...
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The Plashing Vole: February 2015
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Plashing Vole – y traethodydd. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. All hail Eimear McBride. Last week we had the enormous pleasure of Eimear McBride visiting us. I put her debut novel A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing. On a first-year course last year and was stunned by how strongly the students responded to this experimental, poetic, harrowing novel. Which I've now ordered. She also put in a word for Edna O'Brien - rightly so. In the New Yorker. A sexual relationship with her uncle, an affair …. Then we went to dinn...
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Emerald Embers: Mental Ilness, where are we going wrong?
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Lifestyle blog. Me and my ramblings. Friday, 17 July 2015. Mental Ilness, where are we going wrong? Modern life can be stressful. We are living in a time where 1 in 4 british adults suffer from mental illness, and emotional mental disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide. So where are we going wrong? People at the margins of society are finding themselves increasingly isolated. However there are things we can all do to do help. It is such a vast issue, but even small things such as suppo...
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Revoke or Amend S.I 2015 No.138 & Save Lives | Campaigns by You
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Revoke or Amend S.I 2015 No.138 and Save Lives. Flag this petition for review. Rory Stewart MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Elizabeth Truss - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Revoke or Amend The Dangerous Dogs Exemption Schemes (England and Wales) Statutory Order 2015 No.138 to prevent the death of countless exempted pet dogs which have already been found by the courts not to be of any danger to public safety.
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The Plashing Vole: October 2014
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Plashing Vole – y traethodydd. Thursday, 30 October 2014. Homeopathic education from 'alternative providers'. Are you a student at an 'alternative provider'? You could be forgiven if you're not sure - the terminology is deliberately obscure (and pedagogically suspect). 'Alternative providers' are usually private corporations which happen to be in the education business, teaching mostly HNDs awarded by the giant vampire squid that is Pearson Education, though a small number are non-profit set-ups. Which s...
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Pragmatist: July 2014
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Enter your search terms. Exploring how we take control of our own consumer experience. Contains irony. Friday, 11 July 2014. Virtual Currencies Get Real. The Establishment has finally woken up to the reality of virtual currencies, but official responses are all over the place. Let's hope the industry can help forge some international consensus on how to proceed towards a supportive mix of proportionate regulation and self-regulation in the months ahead. Uncertainty as to what is meant by "virtual currenc...
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TTIP – The bad, the worse, and the ugly truth. – Shoot the Messenger
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Straight from the hip. November 9, 2015. November 9, 2015. TTIP – The bad, the worse, and the ugly truth. It’s a dismal Saturday in November. Pumped up on optimism and coffee, our little posse of 38 Degrees. Members head to the office of our local Labour MP to hand in hundreds of petition signatures, imploring our government to ‘ Say No to TTIP. No matter. We. The meeting room only seats three, so Labour MP Alan Whitehead. Poor Alan. It must have felt like he was kicking a puppy. We were looking to our M...
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Bomber Command Clasp | Campaigns by You
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Flag this petition for review. Philip Hammond - Secretary of State for Defence. Call for the Bomber Command Clasp to be extended to aircrew who risked their lives on raids in the Mediterranean, North-Africa, Middle East and Far East. At present aircrew who undertook perilous bombing raids over Italy, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East have been informed by the MOD they are not eligible for the new award, which only applies to those who flew with Bomber Command over Western Europe. This change is im...
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