links for 2011-08-22

• Functional Autonomy » Blog Archive » So Having Dreamt, and Heavily Armed
  A long, but good blog post from David Hayward digging into some of the stuff around the recent riots. And that's a really bad summary of it really...
  (tags: uk riots society)
• Stefan Collini · From Robbins to McKinsey: The Dismantling of the Universities · LRB 25 August 2011
  A well written, if ultimately disheartening, article dismantling the approach and the language of the changes in university funding.
  (tags: university education uk funding)