John Kemp-Welch.
Owns 5,000 acres in Scotland and portrayed by The Times as an ordinary farmer trying to make a living...
In fact former Chairman of the London stock exchange... a non-executive board member of HSBC... a former director of Claridges, Sun Alliance... a rich man
If the rumours are right and the UK, almost unilaterally given current global trends, cuts R&D funding at this critical moment, we're going to drift even further behind in economic growth, soft power, education, science, research, engineering, you name it .....
This is a story about how a reported antisemitism row involving comedian @reginalddhunter unfolded. If you've only read mainstream media you'll have a partial view. The story unravelled on social media and we now have much-needed context. It began with this in The Telegraph
No, an immigrant has never taken your job.
A capitalist decided to replace you with even cheaper labour in order to increase his own profits further.
And right now he revels in you pointing the finger at other people, instead of him.
I've been re-reading the 1945 manifestos for a thing next week.
The sections on education - written in the middle of an economic crisis, with a huge job of reconstruction ahead - make quite a contrast with the narrowly econometric vision we get today.