Category Archives: Politics

Don’t let’s quit

Posted on 22/06/2016 by Jon Butterworth

This doesn’t belong on the Guardian Science pages, because even though universities and science will suffer if Britain leaves the EU, that’s not my main reason for voting ‘remain’. But lots of friends have been writing or talking about their … Continue reading →

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Running to stand still: a brief political analogy

Posted on 07/06/2016 by Jon Butterworth

Yesterday morning, the clock radio was broken because we’d spilled water on it. In the evening, a bolt fell out of the bed, and we noticed that the whole bed was in danger of collapse. During the day, I dried … Continue reading →

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Europe chooses its ‘roadmap’ for science facilities

Posted on 08/05/2016 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Weasels in the Large Hadron Collider, and self-throwing dead cats

Posted on 01/05/2016 by Jon Butterworth

Scientists deployed a new political technology twice this week, to spectacular effect On Thursday I was on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science, discussing with Adam Rutherford some excitement around the new data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Under his newly-invented ‘Cloak … Continue reading →

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