I met up with an old friend Robert down at the Commonwealth Club near to the Charing Cross tube station in London yesterday. He joined me during his lunch-break from the city law firm where he has worked for the last ten years. We were friends as youngsters mainly...

I would like to welcome readers to my regular education blog for HuffPo. I am aiming to offer some radical and quite rebellious postings from my "outlaw" kind of lens. You might never rise to the top of the academic profession reading this blog but you'll also never end up...

Local news media performs numerous functions in society. It scrutinises and holds to account local authorities and individual institutions.

Individual media incorporates regional newspapers, community radio, local television, citizen journalism and news blogging. In Dresden and Leeds these individual media provide a comprehensive local news service in their respective...