U.K. Universities Lead the World in Spin
13 February 2024
Has Parkrun Lost the Plot?
10 February 2024
Fossil Fuels to the Rescue
15 December 2023
Hull resident Dr Roger Watson had no idea the Government was proposing devolution for Hull until he saw a sticker with a QR code at a bus stop. It's a load of nonsense, obviously.
U.K. universities lead the world in spin, says Dr. Roger Watson, who describes some of the most egregious examples from his 30-year university teaching career.
Parkrun has scrapped reporting course records to escape from the brewing controversy over including trans women (i.e. men) in the women's records. This is madness, says avid Parkrunner Dr Roger Watson.
What does the First Amendment require for free speech at American public universities? Harvard law expert Cass R. Sunstein wades into the debate, with some perhaps surprising outcomes.
The nursing and midwifery council has banned 'misgendering' in its first 'free speech' guidance for practitioners. While broadly backing free speech on political issues, it draws a line at anything said to individuals.
Last week, escaping from London back to the North was impossible on an electric train as power had gone down, and only diesels could do the job. The moral speaks for itself, says Dr Roger Watson.
Roger Watson delves once again into the eccentric and grammatically challenged world of petitions to Parliament and finds little to encourage but plenty to amuse.
Returning to Hong Kong for the first time since Covid, Dr Roger Watson says that the creeping absorption of the region into China is palpable as Beijing dismantles many of its former freedoms.
China gets a lot wrong, but a few things right, says Dr Roger Watson, who finds the country moving ahead in some ways but still lamentable in others.
Prolonged wearing of a face mask reduces cognitive function and increases reaction time in addition to increasing shortness of breath and fatigue, a study in an international peer-reviewed journal has found.
Once a city he adored, Edinburgh is now plagued by poor governance, unkempt streets and costly, ineffective public projects, says Dr Roger Watson.
Dr. Clare Craig's excellent new book lays bare the scientific falsehoods and destructive insanity that took hold during Covid, says Dr. Roger Watson.
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