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#5 "Had a darn good title forgot to write it down", or "Paranoia will destroy ya"

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#5 “Had a darn good title, forgot to write it down [1] ” or “Paranoia will destroy ya [2] ” The last several weeks (since I finished and posted blog 4) have of course delivered more of the multi-levelled (international, national and local) sh*t show. In fact, I have decided that politicians and University leaders throughout the UK have discovered this blog and are using it as a sort of neoliberal template of incompetence (Hence, paranoia will destroy ya).  It’s like a Black Mirror version of the film Groundhog Day [3]  (especially for the people who paid attention when Morpheus told us about our suspicions about all not being right in the world. [4]  ) Trump and his evil and incompetent proteges have been shooting themselves and each other in the foot, knee, groin and face over tariffs, deporting people to camps in El Salvador, ignoring or misunderstanding court orders and, at time of writing, messing up the Pentagon and pissing off ex-employees. Wait! UPDATE. Musk says T...
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Universities are financially autonomous...Not! #4

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  #4 Universities are financially autonomous.Not! I haven’t blogged in a while, as I have been unwell, with several problems that have flummoxed our socialised medicine system here in the UK. I would put system in air quotes here, but I fell that that gag has been overused (Oh no it hasn’t).   I have also been spoiled for choice about topics, because loads of really unbelievable things have happened in the world that continue to inspire us to think that many people are more than a few cards short of a full deck. But enough about the Labour government. Sorry “Labour” [1] government (for my Canadian and British world wide fan base---OMG we have a Dutch person here [2] ). I am mocking the current “Labour” government who so far are not governing very much like a Labour government. This is British understatement, for my growing Canadian and worldwide audience.   Many of us in UK academia have been “doomscrolling” in social media and mainstream news outlets because the re...
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There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza....or It was a dark and stormy night. #3

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  There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza...or It was a dark and stormy night. It was a dark and stormy night . Felicity Brown wondered if she had closed all of the shutters on her adjacent guest house (a side business to supplement her already impressive managerial income), as she shut down her AI-enhanced tablet for the night. Another busy day for her, checking the work of the Quality Enhancement (QE) subdivision of her Media and External Relations Department at the University of the North (U_NO). The QE folks were mostly computer-literate nerds who created and manipulated the social media bots which were waging the constant information war with Oxbridge University. Oxbridge, like the U_NO, was formed after several government-encouraged efforts at consolidation in higher education provision. These would have been called “hostile takeovers” in the archaic non-management speak of the 20 th and early 21 st centuries. Back in 2025, when the Labour government began to ...
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