My old mate Chris Sheil has joined the blogging team at Troppo Armadillo. His first post is a contribution to the debate on economic rationalism.

Someone else I’ve been meaning to mention for a while is Paul Watson, whose blog is devoted to “Comedy, media commentary and general bitterness”. Paul’s general bitterness is particularly savage when it comes to reform (scare quotes intentionally omitted) of the higher education sector. Despite having managed to secure my own escape from the general shipwreck (thanks Brendan!), I share Paul’s bitterness on this topic, and his posts are well worth reading.