Now that the so-called ‘credit crunch’ is becoming recession (because people are waking up to the fact that value isn’t there if no-one can repay their debts) we’ve heard some enormous estimates of how much money we’ve lost. Trillions lost from the stock market and the UK’s houses: we’re supposedly all poorer because of this. [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 7, 2008
Context is everything: edensor technology college and politics
This is a really sorry affair, especially because some people have been really quite wrong-headed about how they go about things, and others just don’t know what they are talking about. This is a local story: the teachers of Edensor technology college in Stoke were due to go to Marbella for a training (long) weekend, [...]
October 1, 2008
The neighbourhood polity
I don’t often write about my PhD work here, but this is about blogs and googling your own work. The other week I did a conference presentation about the neighbourhood political scene. I described this forum as the ‘neighbourhood polity’.
One of my colleagues blogged about it here, and then someone reading his work also responded [...]
