PhD: at the stage where I can't write about anything in case it turns out to be nonsense, but also can't write about anything else because the PhD will see, and will punish me. In the meantime... A little while back I stuck in a little random quotes panel on the blog. There's a few fun bits of bite-size reading there, and here's the link to the full list.

Oh, while I'm here, just a thought on this week's similarity between David Cameron and Chris Martin from Coldplay. First, Cameron, responding to a question on the proposed NHS 'reforms', which are looking a lot like the biggest restructure since its foundation. Putting aside whether this is a good idea or not, the use of language is a wonder to behold. Miliband:

The coalition agreement says, 'we will stop top-down re-organisations of the NHS that have got in the way of patient care...'

Cameron:

We are not re-organising the bureaucracy of the NHS, we're cutting and abolishing the bureaucracy of the NHS.

Right. The moral here: never ask Cameron to renovate your house. Chris Martin has a different take on massive self-delusion. Apparently, Coldplay just happen to have written a song, he says, called 'Christmas Lights'. That's just where the flow of creative juices just happened to take them. Later, he then went on to point out that Coldplay cared not about their position in the run up to the Christmas No.1, as that would "cheapen" the song, which - and this is a direct quote - "just happens to have Christmas in its title."

Uh huh. Odd that it got released just before Christmas, one might think. Charitably, one might imagine Coldplay are executing a high-larious, self-knowing prank - but if that's the case, why would they choose a prank that 'just happened' to make them out to be utter twats?

Oh oh, PhD has seen me...