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andrewducker- Shanghai Welcomes 2020 With Spectacular Drone Light Show
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- This Is How You Kill a Profession (academia in this case)
- (tags:academia business usa )
- Poster Series: Doctor Who in China
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- Happy Public Domain Day! Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" is Copyright Free
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- What Happens to Babies Who Are Skyborn?
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- Barcelona's car-free smart city experiment
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- Portugal has found an antidote to right wing populism (investing in its people)
- (tags:welfare Portugal society economics viaFergus )
- The failings of Northern Rail are the government's fault
- (tags:trains transport UK fail )
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Date: 2020-01-02 02:39 pm (UTC)Danish People's Party got 8.7%
Finn's Party is a bit more worrying at 17%
The Dutch Party For Freedom got 13%
National Front got 9% in France.
Even the worst of those is nowhere near taking significant power.
(Bearing in mind I'm not an expert in the politics of any of those countries)
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Date: 2020-01-02 02:52 pm (UTC)Whether that's because of the economic changes being better than the ones in other leftish European countries, I don't know.
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Date: 2020-01-02 08:41 pm (UTC)On the Strangling of Academia
Date: 2020-01-02 08:39 pm (UTC)Re: On the Strangling of Academia
Date: 2020-01-02 10:07 pm (UTC)But after 20 years, it is not for me, not any more. I am much, much happier having left. I've been on holiday since before Christmas, and in that time have done no real work and have only responded, very briefly, to a tiny handful of emails that came in needing a prompt reply. (And it is probably not a coincidence that all of these correspondents were academics, including one who suggested we have an online meeting on the Saturday before Christmas because they had space in their diary then.) I know there's a lot of work to do when I go back on Monday, but it is not filling me with the overwhelming dread it previously did. My chronic sleep-maintenance insomnia has pretty much vanished. I have not spent the whole of the autumn struggling to shake off a series of minor ailments.
Re: the Doctor Who Chinese Poster project
Date: 2020-01-02 08:41 pm (UTC)