Who’s looking forward to today’s Budget, where Rachel Reeves will set out her plan to fill the nation’s £22 billion funding black hole?
To cheer readers of the Daily Sceptic, in addition to my other articles about colossal amounts of taxpayer waste, I thought I’d give 10 examples of current PhDs Brits have been charged for.
PhDs don’t seem particularly expensive compared to other Woke Waste, costing around £20k stipend a year for most students (often with add-ons). But the sums get pretty big when you consider the thousands of (taxpayer-funded) wannabe doctors we have beavering away.
Earlier this year, for instance, I wrote about Techne, a consortium of nine universities in London and the South East which awards 57 taxpayer-funded doctoral studentships annually (meaning the cost is likely to be at least £1 million). It is responsible for PhDs on using the “garden as a site to cultivate queer anti-racist communities” and “spiritual activism”.
Unfortunately, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s no end of quack doctors in the U.K. while we can’t find medical ones. You have to ask why, when we don’t subsidise the latter, we cough up for people decolonising things and “using porcelain to interrogate whiteness”.
To see more of what I mean, behold the following PhDs, all currently underway…
When I am Old, I shall Wear Purple Nail Varnish: Utilising performance art to construct queer spaces that celebrate and advocate for ageing bodies, De Montfort University (September 2022 –
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Ahead of her Budget, Reeves has promised there won’t be a “return to austerity”.
Increasing taxation will increase the likelihood or genuine austerity as more money is extracted from those producing wealth.
I don’t know it is like an exercise in self-abasement and a competition to see who is the most abased at every level. It is an effective strategy because all it takes is one disruotive element and then the certainty that most employees at every level of the bureaucracy will go along with anything for a quiet life. It is a worm-like energy and I don’t see anything Aryan about it.
Proposed PhD thesis that’s sorely missing (likely without any chance of getting funded): I’m planning to do some experimental, linguistic research into possible avenues for translating AHRC-sponsored PhD thesises into actually meaningful English.
My thesis aims to explore the possibilities of challenging and even subverting the hegemonising representations of asylum seekers and refugees in such highly bio/necro-political spaces in contemporary narratives
A fascinating collection of the magical incantations – “hegemonising”, “narratives”, “bio/necro political spaces”, “challenging”, “subverting” – that the marxo-fascists are addicted to. But note there’s no “studying” or “describing” – i.e. it’s soaked in contemporary New Dark Age political activism masquerading as the pursuit of knowledge.
In other words, and less succinctly, bolleaux.
‘This practice research PhD will contribute to a paucity….’ at least they’re not lying.
Here are some from my thoughts that perhaps the above Universities could add to their Phd programmes
No funding for you, as you haven’t addressed the urgent need for ‘decolonising’ in any of your proposals.
what about if I just put it as an add on to the word salad
well… as long as it’s a Vegan word salad
Decolonizing cabbage: I plan to study how the act of planting greens by black transfeminists in suburban allotments in the capital of Nigeria helps to uncover hidden black narratives which support queer deconstruction of putatively English vegetable storylines.
The joke is many of our ‘spoof’ PhDs are probably true….
What part would cavolo nero play in your studies? Just asking.
I suggest something along the lines of
Devoured! How the cannibalization of the black majority population by the empire to sustain its looter economy symbolically resonates to this day in the structurally racist habit of white people to eat foreign ‘black’ cabbage.
Not so much word salad as word coleslaw
Stop Taxpayer Funded Useless Degrees
PhD = Pretty Happy Dudes, Piling it on High and Deep.
Largely a waste of time in most cases. Increasingly the case with many degrees.
Goal – Industries being created.
Funding being made permanent.
Anti-reality being promoted.
Or as Kuhn called it, ‘paradigms’, established by power, money, not ‘science’.
I doubt the medieval invention of the University had such degradation and stupidity in their business plans.
Painter and house Decorator.
Good one, will use that if you don’t mind. I find real Painters to be quite useful, especially the tall ones. Not sure about most PhD’s. We are wallowing in abstract b.s. models and theories about nothing.
I think I should apply to do a PhD in the emergence of word salad as an exponential growth indicator of non-binary carbon dioxide in the global dimension.
Impressive. You must be an ‘expert’.
Ed will give you a job
And they all used ChatGPT
Maybe I am being unfair to ChatGPT