The disorder London has seen in the past three days has certainly been unusual. Last night similar, although much smaller-scale, incidents took place in a number of other major English cities. Here’s how my thoughts stand on this at the moment. I’m responding here mostly to things friends have said over the past few days; [...]
Nick Cohen is going after the Humanities in his contrarian manner, claiming that academics have nobody to blame but themselves for the ease with which the current government are going to get rid of them. He seems rather delighted, in fact, by the prospect of the slate being wiped clean.
Yesterday we walked the lower half of the Ravensbourne River in South East London, recording our impressions as we went.
