tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post2810241464539576415..comments2023-10-08T05:00:23.559-04:00Comments on Clarissa's Blog: UK's David Cameron Pushes for the Destruction of AcademiaClarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-1522648277021053152011-03-28T19:50:33.514-04:002011-03-28T19:50:33.514-04:00research bodies must work to the government's ...<i><b>research bodies must work to the government's national objectives... It is government money.</b> They have the right to spend it on what they want.</i><br /><br />Doesn't it sound exactly like former USSR? Btw, will you continue your posts about its' collapse? They've been very interesting.elnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-79230820781859638432011-03-28T19:38:29.037-04:002011-03-28T19:38:29.037-04:00Cameron can come here to Missouri to see The Big S...Cameron can come here to Missouri to see The Big Society, preferably in high summer so than he can count chins and spare tires. Maybe some members of our Big Society can put those biscuits and gravy to good use, and sit on him!NancyPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-68198396866140141152011-03-28T18:05:18.122-04:002011-03-28T18:05:18.122-04:00I love your country passionately so it hurts me pr...I love your country passionately so it hurts me profoundly to see its great intellectual tradition being destroyed in this way.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-60816200709891553432011-03-28T18:01:08.232-04:002011-03-28T18:01:08.232-04:00I can only recommend you to go here and have a bit...I can only recommend you to go here and have a bit of a giggle about the lovely Mr. Cameron:<br /><br />http://davidcameronpretendingtobecommon.tumblr.com/<br /><br />Apart from anything else, humour will soon be our only weapon (and I suspect he fears being laughed at more than anything else).<br /><br />No, seriously, it's terrifying. The Big Society as a political vision is nothing but a really really bad and seriously damaging attempt to make the absurd cuts look better. And for academia, don't even get me started... UK has such an amazing tradition for university tradition, and they are throwing it all away. At this very minute.<br /><br />Grumpy greetings from across the pond,<br />/ElisabethTeolog på afvejehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07906910499925656187noreply@blogger.com