Category Archives: News

Sheket!

A little while ago I was with a group of family and friends discussing the Bilderberg Group, a kind of un-conference in which the world’s movers and shakers can get together and discuss matters of great import in an informal … Continue reading

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Resolute

What’s your New Year Resolution? For me it is none of the following: Giving up smoking (these days I only smoke through my ears); easing up on the drinking (my alcohol consumption would embarrass the most abstemious newt gnat); going … Continue reading

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No surprises likely on UK University fees

To the surprise of pretty much nobody, either in the University or outside, my University has become the latest to announce that undergraduate tuition fees will rise to the full £ 9000 a year from 2012. [Formal announcement from the … Continue reading

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A cross-plug – but in a good cause

The latest issue of Physiology News, which I edit, is now up online. I wouldn’t usually plug it so blatantly – I would simply plug it marginally more sneakily, of course – but this issue contains two articles that may … Continue reading

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