I set out to welcome the new Consortium students. Unbelievably this is the fifteenth intake. And for the first time they will be joined by students on a new MA in Film Curating that we have started with the London Film School. It is so pleasant to teach in Central London. Even if the term involves such terrors as teaching a course on Experiment at the Science Museum. Nothing like an intellectual challenge to make you feel really alive as the academic year starts.