Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary

One of my pet hates from my University days was the small number of senior politics “academics” who were seemingly only interested in using their position as a platform for their own (usually warped) views. While I was a student at York, Alex Callinicos was the worst offender, although there were others. He no longer works at York, and I must say I am considerably more likely to donate to the alumni fund now that they aren’t wasting money on his wages.

A second problem that lurks within politics academia has risen above ground again – that of political guesswork masquarading as “research”. Professor Tony Travers, an “urban politics expert”, has just released a new “study”, and unfortunately the Manchester Evening News seems to have swallowed it. Let’s have a detailed look:

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