From NotBBC forums, via Liberal Conspiracy, comes an eyewitness report on Johnny Vegas’ set as part of Stewart Lee’s “Ten Best Stand-Ups in the World Ever” series:
It was pretty contentious, so I’m slightly concerned about misrepresenting what happened if you didn’t see it with your own eyes. I can’t give you the complete context without [...]

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Yesterday, Professor David Colquhoun gave a stirring lecture on the corporatisation of academia, and the rise of non-science. It was great to see an esteemed professor call university performance metrics a load of “meaningless bollocks”.
He attacked, and rightly so, the growth of homeopathy degrees in the universities. For me, there is only one reason why [...]

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