Urban policy and practice

I’m one of the editors of Local Government Studies journal. In a widely read and cited piece, Peter John in 2014 (£) highlighted how Englis...

BEFORE YOU ALL SHOOT ME, THE TITLE OF THIS BLOG IS AN IRONIC PUN.* PLEASE READ ON. The Athena SWAN truck rolls-on. Along with colleagues,...

“We must do something now!” the cry of many a politician. There’s a famous scene in The Thick of It where the Minister is on their way to a...

This post is copyright and is not covered by the CC licence on the right. My latest book review was of two books, and a bit more like a...

I was at a couple of really interesting seminars today in my Faculty (of Social Sciences). The morning one was by Naomi Eisenstadt, Anti-Po...

As a tri-afflete I run. Or, I ran. I’ve currently got problems with my ITB at the moment, so I’m not running as much as I’d like to. Altho...

Someone close to me lost their job not too long ago. In fact they were sacked. The job involved early starts and late finishes; a lot of tr...