- Fabulous Star Trek fanvid for Shatner’s “Common People”
You’re welcome.
- Jailed Azeri Reporter Ismayilova Wins Press Freedom Award
I hope that this will accelerate her release.
- In Memoriam, Professor Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015
Sad news of a former colleague.
- We Need Clean-Energy Innovation, and Lots of It
Bill Gates speaks.
I wasn’t going to comment on this one (I have somewhat strong opinions on the quality of exam-setting in that period); but I’ve just remembered that Ken Riley was my first contact with Clare, at a careers fair in a (rival) comprehensive school hall in Durham in 1982-3, and he couldn’t have been nicer or more encouraging about Oxbridge applications (he was, oddly, representing both universities), and later got in touch about a Target Schools MML day at Clare.
Having said that, I think that was just about my last contact with him, too, being a wussy arts student…