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Tag Archives: brexit
Letter in the Sunday Times
Of which I wrote on average about 1/8 of a character… See here.
Don’t let’s quit
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
Running to stand still: a brief political analogy
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
