Category Archives: General

Future Skills should be renamed Future Culls

There was no prewarning. At first, it just seemed like one of KU’s usual anodyne staff announcements and was quietly placed on the Uni website with no fanfare. But this is not surprising, because the few staff who spotted it … Continue reading

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New Kingston Uni Song Launched

Kingston Uni Comms Team News Release: For immediate media distribution. No embargo. After many months of creative innovation by a specially selected interim team, Kingston’s Gold Commandant, Admiral and Senior Vice-Clown Steven ‘Two Jobs’ Spier is very pleased to announce … Continue reading

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My achievements in 2023-24: A special message from your Commandant

Another day, another leak: Dissenter has been given the original draft of the latest piece of Spier-spin and, in the interests of transparency, the text is reproduced below. From: Gold Commandant and Vice-Clown Professor ‘Two Jobs’ Spier, Supreme Leader, Kingston … Continue reading

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Another rat leaves the sinking ship: ‘Mack the Knife’ is retiring

Whatever will the Gold Commandant do now? In a short news item quietly slipped out on the Uni website it has been revealed that Dave ‘Mack the Knife’ Mackintosh, the oldest man in the University, if not the Universe, has … Continue reading

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Kingston Uni pioneers new cheese-roll culture

Feeling peckish? Hungry after a lecture? In need of a meal? As well as its Clown House and Future Ill’s programme, Kingston University is pioneering another ‘sector-leading’ strategy to make its rivals blue and green with envy: quick-bite cheese rolls … Continue reading

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Ten years old

Ten years ago today (16th April 2014) the first two posts appeared on Dissenter’s Blog. Who would have expected it to lasted so long? The anonymous originators of the Blog have long moved on to, one trusts, better things, along … Continue reading

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