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It is good to see that Stanford University is looking out for us.  The efforts of the University's IT department to further protect its delicate student body from the threats of imagery in language has been made available for all...

I've been reading Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time, written byDavid Dixon, and published by Crown House Publishing, 2022: 250pp, paperback, £18.99, ISBN 978-1-78135-401-8.  The comments which follow will appear as a review in the Spring 2023...

I noticed last year just how many 'Christmas' greetings messages from NGOs failed even to mention Christmas.  "Season's greetings", "Festive greetings", "Happy holidays", "Merry yuletide", etc were common themes.  I even had a "Happy winter" email.  It said: "Dear ... Colleague, 2022...

The Times on July 17th 1897 published Kipling's poem Ressional.  This includes the lines: ... The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. ... Far-called,...

Is the child really the father of the man (or mother of the woman) as Wordsworth envisaged back in 1802?  I wondered this as I watched a nativity event last week at my grandchildren's school.  It was no surprise that...

When I used to go to meetings at the Institute of Education in London, I developed the habit of dropping by the Wellcome Trust's coffee and book shop on the Euston Road.  It was and remains a good place to...

It's rare for Cumbria to be in the news these days.  No one is still hiding in its hidden valleys waiting for the latest guerilla skirmish with the plundering Normans, there's nobody on the watch for cattle rustlers from the...

I see that we are to double our imports of gas from the USA.  This is shale gas – the same gas that we refuse to extract from our own ground, except that the American gas has been liquified, transported...

Here's a renewables Christmas quiz for you: 12 questions.  Getting 4 right or nearly right will be pretty good and show a better understanding of the problems our electricity grid faces than most people. ........... 1 – The proportion of...

I had to admire the cardboard fort that my grandson had created at school and which was now a feature of his home gallery.  Or was it a castle?   Maybe even a railway terminus or an arts centre?  I...