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Do you know less about the world than a chimpanzee?
The world is probably in better shape than you think, writes Dick Skellington. Last summer Louis, the chimp known to millions as Brooke Bond, the suave face of the PG Tips adverts parodying James Bond...
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Would you buy a secondhand MINT from this economist?
Predicting which nations will take off in the 21st century can be a random process. Alan Shipman explains.Jim O’Neill is a more successful economist than I’ll ever be. He rose to the top of the...
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Bankers walk tall down Bonus Street
How inept does a financier have to be to forfeit their massive payout? asks Independent columnist Mark Steel. I wonder how useless you have to be as a banker before they don’t give you a bonus. If you...
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Politicians should never argue with the Fat Controller!
Recent accusations by the Shadow Transport Minister that Thomas the Tank Engine is sexist almost made Dick Skellington blow his safety valves.Every now and again a politician says something which...
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Why we should remember the Armenians
Next year sees the centenary of the Armenian genocide. Armenia has crucial links to the development of British and world civilisation as Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian explains. Until Darwin’s...
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Social Science graduates more likely to be in a job than science graduates
Now there is a headline you don't read too often. Dick Skellington explains. Social Sciences a good grounding for useful employment? That's a statement that flies against the myth of social science as...
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Want to defeat UKIP? Then get more working class people into politics
If the left could get a few more "normal" people on side, perhaps it wouldn’t be left to the reactionary right to shake up the political establishment, writes James Bloodworth. Nigel Farage is a former...
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Working with Stuart Hall – a personal memoir
Bram Gieben, Social Science Staff Tutor in Scotland, reflects on what it was like to work with the great Stuart Hall (pictured), who died on 10 February. Newspapers and airwaves are full of obituaries...
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Social scientists and social commentators are often more powerful than they...
The use of a comic lifestyle disease to keep a reckless Texas driver out of jail underlines the need for clear definitions in social science, argues Alan Shipman. With one mighty leap of imagination, a...
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How corrupt is the UK?
Hackgate, political fraud, Hillsborough: the UK has the potential to be as corrupt as anywhere else in the world. There is now a daily diet of corruption scandals hitting the headlines in Britain, from...
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