A journey to the heart of Britain

I teach at Brunel University in Uxbridge on the outskirts of London – I’m not claiming I could have any academic job I wanted, but I did decide to work at Brunel for a reason, and that reason is Britain. Or, to be a bit more precise: Little Britain. The Brunel University campus was built in the 1960s, and to my way of thinking it’s a superb example of Brutalist architecture – Stanley Kubrick was certainly impressed, because he chose to shoot some of A Clockwork Orange there, the university’s...