My Romanian student, thanks to our protests, is back in Nottingham.  I phoned him in Harmondsworth Detention Centre and he was incredibly stoical and calm about the whole thing - calmer than me!  I've had two letters from the Home Office te

Jane and I met with Greg on Friday 16th June to talk about our Transfer documents.  Greg takes exception to my football analogy!  He's right, it's probably not a methodology, and I did go overboard with diagrams, Powerpoint -stylee.  B

On May 25th I went to the British Museum to hear the poet James Fenton talk about Michelangelo's sonnets.  He made comparisons with the roughly contemporaneous Shakespeare - both had their poems circulated in their lifetimes, both wrote abo

Just heard that one of my students, who's been in the UK for 5 years, has been taken - in handcuffs - to a detention centre ready for deportation back to Romania.  I didn't think I lived in a country where people could be 'disappeared'.&nbs