Glasgow University appears to have embarked on the most ruthless fundraising exercise I have ever come across. A few weeks ago, I got a letter telling me that a current student from the uni would shortly be telephoning me – it didn’t provide a number or email address that I could contact to opt out [...]
Having decided that I haven’t done enough completely stupid things recently, I have decided to write a novel in a month. I started this evening and have so far written 2,032 words of the 50,000 I will eventually end up with. It’s not just me, though, there are around 70,000 other people around the world [...]