Draw Breath

I’ve been asked to give a ten minute talk (as one of a panel of three) in QUB’s School of Sociology tomorrow on the Global Financial Crisis. What can you cover in ten minutes? Not much, I’d say, but my brief is to include something about how we study societies. So I’ll make two points: Read more…

Draw Breath's resident bloggers were belting out the tunes at the very pleasant Queen's University Annual Carol Service in the Great Hall last night. Maybe it's just me, but I got a real sense that religious types are trying to capture the Christmas message for their own purposes this year. Most sinister. And bad for the economy.