Its good to see this project finally come to an end - though building a new bridge would have been quicker and perhaps cheaper! www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/transpo...

Wakes up. Checks Cricinfo. The usual service resumes. Defeat 22 in 23 Tests in Australia beckons. And every time they mess around with the County Championship, looking for the magic answer. And they never find it. If only the Test players had featured in the dreadful Kookaburra matches!

The Bazball ethos seems to be to bowl yourself into an amazing position, then blow it all with the bat.

Our paper in the MOH SI on Microhistory about FIFA Secretary General Helmut Käser’s 1967 business trip to Northern Ireland and London for the IFAB annual conference is now available open access (apparently). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Listen to me in a discussion with CIPD fellow and HR scholar Sinéad McCotter about how we use theatre - with professional actors - in the classroom to give students reflexive 'real world' type experiences. This demonstrates the continuing value and relevance of humanities in the business school.

UK HE sector remains dangerously over-exposed to business schools under-recruiting postgraduate overseas students. charteredabs.org/insights/new...

It seems there is some reverse traffic in the current American cultural and by extension political invasion of the US.

Thank you to all who came to our launch session yesterday!

Good sense from @garethdennis.uk, LBA must be the worst airport in Europe. www.youtube.com/shorts/D-yIJ...

Good observation of what empricial historical research can do. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

With only 10.5% of the population high school qualified but without a degree, India isn't neccessarily the cleverest place for UK universities to set up overseas branches. South Africa, Romania, Brazil or even Czechia have a much bigger gap. www.visualcapitalist.com/most-educate...

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

Running your own server and web presence often is a core capability, and outsourcing it a very bad strategy indeed.

If you missed it, I won the British Academy of Management Medal for Contribution to Communities. www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...

People with a degree are still more likely to be employed than those without one. The common view that having a degree is pointless in today's world is simply erroneous. www.ft.com/content/ea9e...

I think the AI 'industry' can afford it, or does the free market and property rights only work in certain circumstances.

Its good to see the Pacer controversey just won't die - they did not save rural railways. And I've yet to see actual numbers to evidence that they did.

Always nice to have the physical copy in your hands.

A good free summary of the HE sector's problems. Of course, to the public, HE is just one of many British sectors in crisis where an instituitonal rethink is overdue.

The Historic England Research Magazine issue on 200 years of Rail seems quite good - and a free resource. historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/re...

@martycricket.bsky.social You know a match is getting serious when they send in @kevinhowells.bsky.social

@martycricket.bsky.social feels like its going to be a very long afternoon...even if the rain or bad light intervenes.

A great micro-business history that shows that tourism wasn't just a seaside industry in late 19th century Britain.

OUT NOW: Foundations of Managing British Olympics Our introductory history of the British Olympic Movement from the 18th century up to 1906! 🗃️ #sport #olympics #history #sporthistory soccermadboffins.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...

Some good news, given the needless faffing with this over the years.

Now out digitally and releasing in print on Wednesday - a unique narrative of how the British contributed to the Olympic Games as an institution. 🗃️ #history #sportshistory #businesshistory #managementhistory bookstore.emerald.com/foundations-...

An excellent pushback against the idea that AI is somehow education enhancing from two of my colleagues.

Forced to admit that public sector is probably better (though train operator rankings are often more luck than management quality). www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c13ea34...

Surely this is the early history of every new town ever. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9ee6ba6...

The Mandleson case demonstrates that 'serious politicians' or 'grown-ups' really need to up their game in moral and ethical terms, or it will be easier for Reform to pick them off. This applies both to the decision to hire him in the first place, and the painfully slow decision to fire him.

Congratulations London and South East University Group - you've merged together two failing businesses, now you have a very large failing business with a reorganisation problem. See also Penn Central in the 1970s or the British Motor Company/British Leyland.

Unpopular idea: we need to rehabilitate bureaucracy. It allows for fairness and due process as well as a career structure, and replaces abitary authority with rational authority.

Tax avoidance is unpatriotic.

Given climate change means the numbers of refugees are unfortunately only likely to intensify, politicians should be conditioning people to accept them. These sorts of populist sentiments are only political timebombs which limit your policy range later.

Was running along the river Don last night, and several footpath and no fishing etc signs had been spray painted over with St George crosses. I call it vandalism not patriotism.

Even graphic design and the classic idea of having a simple, tidy logo seems to be under threat. Bizarre for the country that invented roadside branding. www.ft.com/content/a1d3...

Council afraid to stand up in the court of public opinion.

Just a cute inspection vehicle I spotted passing on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway's youtube feed.

Good feature on the UK's foremost connoseuir of toilets. And one of the reasons why the standard of public space in the UK has declined so much. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The ECB would rather we didn't discuss it, but the Metro Bank One Day Cup Group B is in an intriguing position. Probably one loss too many for #Durham, though. #cricket

Available as e-book from 4 September and as hardback from 24th! bookstore.emerald.com/foundations-...

Loving the use of a Pacer by the Granuiad because it is still the stock image for rail in the North, nearly 5 years after Pacers were retired.

One of the lesser covered elements of the university crisis is that as well as cutting academic staff institutions are cutting away support structures for students. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@geofftech.bsky.social temporary free bus route in Doncaster during roadworks that would make a good documentary.

Coming soon... bookstore.emerald.com/foundations-...

AI makes you stupid. Stay factual and think for yourself instead. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/00c6e3c...

Perhaps not the most historically integral analysis, but the VOC was more than twice the size of Nvidia. www.visualcapitalist.com/historys-big...

Universities should stop wasting money on marketing that is inauthentic.

Come to my #AOM2025 session next on Organisational Communication via Employee Representation Schemes - room MR6 in Bella Center. #MHD

Automated metros are dangerous - in #Copenhagen for #AOM2025 and the people getting off the metro on front of me nearly got crushed by the doors which seemed to have no detector that someone was in the way. I was stuck on the train and had to go to the next station and come back one.