Sunday update
A few bits and pieces and working on a post....
I am working on a new post about the One Wales government in 2009. This will cover amongst other things the retirement of Rhodri Morgan as Welsh Labour leader and in outline the subsequent Welsh Labour leadership election. It will take me some time to write - this is, after all, part of the research for my next book, on the making of the Welsh Government, to be published in due course by Palgrave Macmillan.
Tomorrow, we have our annual research conference for my section of Cardiff business School, when I will be presenting on the social construction of a higher education crisis in the UK, as I have already mentioned on LinkedIn. This is an outline of something I have been working on sporadically since the end of January.
Last week I read the wonderful The House of Water by Fflur Dafydd, one of the best novels I have read this year, which addresses our climate-threatened world, Wales, and the stories we tell ourselves. It’s an unfolding fiction of detection as well with an unexpected twist towards the end. The novel is very relevant in the light of this article in the FT on how the climate crisis will make the world uninsurable, a theme picked up in a way also in the Danish drama Familier som vores currently available on BBC iPlayer, which I watched this week. I guess this might feature in our teaching on the MBA this autumn….It is good to be thinking about teaching again after all this year’s nonsense.
