People who take their faith a la carte and cafeteria style don't impress me much on the points of conviction and principle that we're supposed to be talking about.

What has happened is that aesthetic production today has become
integrated into commodity production generally: the frantic economic
urgency of producing fresh waves of ever more novel-seeming goods
(from clothing to airplanes), at ever greater rates of turnover, now
assigns an increasingly essential structural function and position to
aesthetic innovation and experimentation. Such economic necessities
then find recognition in the institutional support of all kinds available
for the newer art, from foundations and grants to museums and other
forms of patronage.

Jameson, Postmodern, NLR

Pope Still Catholic Shock

So the UCU have produced a report advising that market involvement in HE is bad. I'm sure when they set out on this piece of investigative analysis they had no idea that this would be the outcome. I for one am shocked. I think they should follow up this groundbreaking work.

and they still manage to get excited about this...the whole debate has now very aptly reached Private Eye with the University of East London and Essex (acronym U.S.E.L.ESS) offering BAs in Comparative Twitter Research and BSC in Applied Wall-to-Wall Carpeting. Any questions?

If Cameron gets in to bed with Clegg it will mean a bunch of irreconcilable positions patched together like a half human half cyborg being out of a Mary Shelley novel. The Tories are split as it is which why they can never win an election and haven't done so since 1992.

do you really want to put in a man who agrees with Gordon Brown on almost every major issue, and is so confident of his liberalism that he doesn’t even try to keep it secret? No muttered remarks in the car about ‘bigotry’ for him. He has said openly that he regards the conservative-minded people of this country as ‘fruitcakes and closet racists’ – and nobody made him apologise for it afterwards. If you now endorse the Cameron Tory Party, you will destroy all real hope of change for the better.

We haven't seen the power of the press tycoon dictating this election result despite that fact that many of the papers are pro-Conservatve party. No matter what Murdoch's cabal does there is just no groundswell of enthusiasm for a new New Labour government run by a bunch of old Etonians.