One of the other meetings I attended this past week was a Hansard Society seminar. It was the first in a series on ‘Making Better Law’. I gave a paper that examined some of the problems at the heart of the current law-making process. I identified various problems. One is the sheer volume of legislation. …
This week’s quiz questions. Who are these two peers? Peer 1 I did my principal degrees in the field of engineering production. I spent a few years in industry before entering the academic world. I am presently a professor. I am also a scientific advisor to the South African Government. Who am I? Peer 2 I trained…
This week has been particularly hectic – meetings from morning to night, which explains why I have not been particularly prolific with posts. However, I thought I would do a post or two on some of the meetings. On Wednesday evening, I attended the launch of the Opposition Studies Forum, a research group designed – as the name…
I was asked to contribute a short article to the latest issue of Total Politics on whether or not political scientists (or what the magazine calls political academics) live in the real world. I argued that they do. Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle was invited to put the argument that that they don’t. It wasn’t a…
Do please feel free to contribute, if you have not already done so, to the question from last week (the most admired peer); there have been some extremely interesting, and varied, replies. Here’s this weekend’s questions. Peer 1 I started my career as a housing administrator. I was director of a alcohol recovery programme and…
