Philobiblon

The Times Education Supplement is reporting that climate change is the theme de jour in children’s books – something about which I’m in two minds: it is great if the kids learn about the issues and start to apply pester power to good purposes, but I think of those Sixties videos or terrified kids huddled under school desks during nuclear bomb drills and wonder if inducing terror among the young is the ideal way to proceed.

I found that story while looking for the front page story that I saw on a news-stand today. It doesn’t seem to be on the web, but the gist was that women at the “new”, post-1992 universities were getting much closer to equal pay than those in older universities. A further demonstration of how difficult entrenched male privilege is to overturn.