Just to make it abundantly clear to legal action averse WordPress.com and ‘Sir’ Howard I wish to state categorically that he does not in any way have carnal relations with badgers. And nor does his fragrant wife Lady Sheila Newby. If, for example, one were to leave him (or her) alone with several nubile young badgers, a tube of KY, a bottle of wine and a DVD of ‘Badger Watch’ no untoward activity would take place. Badgers, not to put too fine a point on it, are entirely safe from moral danger and lasciviousness while in the company of the Newbys. Running universities and personal ethics however are another matter.
6 January, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Good for you for blogging about this, depressing that blogs are being shut for writing stories about Sir H
6 January, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Hey Derek, hopefully enough will so he backs off his aggressive stance (and WP having more backbone would be good) and of course remember, he does not have sex with badgers! Might post more depending on how things unfold.
6 January, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Definitely not a badger-botherer, but wolverines, by Jove, now that’s a different matter entirely…
6 January, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Wolverines?!?! Dammit, Howie has some questions to answer!
6 January, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Sir Howard Newby watch is another blog that has been shut down, its all google cached though.
I guess comparing him to David Brent on ‘Sir Howard Newby Watch’ was legally problematic.
6 January, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Have you read this Grauniad piece?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/jul/23/highereducation.uk
I think he should treasure comparisons to Brent!
Somewhat bizarrely this post is now moving up the google results for his name, I am glad the internet can be informed of his absolutely upstanding behaviour vis a vis badgers.
6 January, 2010 at 10:24 pm
As I think I’ve advised you before. Badgers are evil and no human should go near them.
6 January, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Well clearly ‘Sir’ Howie wisely follows your advice!
6 January, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Is it time for pics and videos yet?
6 January, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Yes, but of course, no badger porn!
6 January, 2010 at 10:35 pm
No. Badger porn is bad and I know that ‘Sir’ Howard Newby would not like it. I’m thinking of a song about a birdhouse. It started singing in my head while reading your OP.
6 January, 2010 at 10:37 pm
A birdhouse? Hmm, ok.
6 January, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Performing live from Columbia University:
6 January, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Ok typo fixed!
6 January, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Have you seen the film TMBG got their name from? Looks good. From Wiki: “Justin Playfair (Scott) is a millionaire who retreats into fantasy after the death of his wife, imagining himself to be Sherlock Holmes, the legendary fictional detective. Complete with deerstalker hat, pipe and violin, he spends his days in a home-made criminal laboratory, constantly paranoid about plots hatched by his (Holmes’s) arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.”
6 January, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Lamont!
6 January, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Does he like badgers?
6 January, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Yes I saw the film ages ago, George C Scott was always a pretty interesting actor.
Lamont is ‘The Badger’
https://tenpercent.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/edls-epic-fail-in-wrexham/#comment-24023
6 January, 2010 at 11:19 pm
EXCLUSIVE:
Sir Howard’s badger shame caught up with him when he visited Beijing Institute of Technology a while back…
6 January, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Well he’s coping with it well!
6 January, 2010 at 11:22 pm
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6 January, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Thanks Harpy,
http://harpymarx.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/bloggers-united-against-censorship/
And Derek
http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2010/01/ecologics-blog-is-under-attack.html
http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2010/01/material-he-had-published-on-sir-howard.html
6 January, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Full name and address of the complainant is:
Mr Kevan Ryan
Director of Legal Services
The University of Liverpool
The Foundation Building
765 Brownlow Hill
Liverpool L69 7ZX
It’s nice to know the taxpayers paying to protect Sir Howard from questions over his private business affairs isn’t it?
6 January, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Wait a minute, this isn’t about badgers?!?!?
That tends to happen when neoliberal ‘Sirs’ are involved. Think of it as a bold new privatisation strategy.
7 January, 2010 at 10:32 pm
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17 January, 2010 at 4:58 pm
http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2010/01/cautionary-tale-of-university-axeman.html
are my thoughts in the Star on friday
17 January, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Thanks Derek, good article especially on the whole culture of neoliberal corporatism/ managerialism that has invaded our universities.