Colin Webster
@profwebster.bsky.social
Social scientist UK. Emeritus Professor Leeds Beckett University. Visiting Professor York St John University.
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Stupidology | William Davies
The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk) url: academic.oup.com/bjc/article-...
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk)
In September 2024, the final Report of the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire was published. Seven years after 72 people had been killed, it was d
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June 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk) url: academic.oup.com/bjc/article-...
Something I discovered about my university a few years ago, and I assume its the same in other institutions. That the Governing Body was made up of local businessmen and accountants, with one academic staff rep and one student rep. Doesn't augur well for places being run on educational principles.
March 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Something I discovered about my university a few years ago, and I assume its the same in other institutions. That the Governing Body was made up of local businessmen and accountants, with one academic staff rep and one student rep. Doesn't augur well for places being run on educational principles.
Badenoch seems more interested in politicising and polarising everything to win elections in Britain's FPTP system than how and what to govern, or why.
March 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Badenoch seems more interested in politicising and polarising everything to win elections in Britain's FPTP system than how and what to govern, or why.
Me thinks that Trump's end game is US Autarky of the Far Right...
March 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Me thinks that Trump's end game is US Autarky of the Far Right...
February 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I've joined Bluesky.
February 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I've joined Bluesky.