[Last saved, August 6th, 2009. As will be obvious, some bits are written a while back. Mad Men, for example, has already had its third series broadcast in the UK.]
I was eating my lunch and trying to get down to some work, but got distracted reading this article in the Guardian. Channel 4 are [...]
Lecturer in Politics, University of East Anglia
Typical newspaper readers?
I was just flicking through CiF when I saw this post on Top Gear that was attracting hundreds of comments. Aside from the (rather distressing) dislike many commentators obviously had for those practicing the social sciences in British higher education institutions, one interesting rhetorical point stood out.
The vast majority of comments were critical of the [...]