Posts by Martin Parker

Scientists decry Bletchley Park's decline

@ Richard

"If it was a drop-in centre for one legged paedo muslim gay transgender drug addicts with AIDS and SAD"

Umm, I'm not aware of any such services funded from the public purse. You are perhaps thinking of the other Britain?

Will you be putting that silly rant at the top of the petition that you seem to want someone else to organize? That would really help to build support for the subsidising of your hobby. After all, nobody wants to be associated with anyone in the slightest bit 'weird', do they?

Jodrell Bank spared the chop

@Philip

Ranting at an imaginary cabal of humanities graduates cackling over their latest blow against science is all good fun, but you'd do well to remember that the politician who did the most damage to UK science was Margaret Thatcher - admittedly a Midlands rather than a Northern Chemist (Oxford MSc.)

I wonder why she found right-wing politics more congenial than the UK chemicals industry? Actually, I know a couple of "Northern Chemists" (have you ever actually heard that phrase used seriously? I haven't) who also got out of what's left of that industry, usually into finance. So the current mess the markets and hence all of us are in can, in fact, be entirely blamed on former chemistry graduates slotting into the neoliberal vanguard in politics and banking!

QED