Two Philosophers Elected to British Academy

They are Terence Irwin (Oxford University) and Shalom Lappin (King's College, London).  Lappin, it will be recalled, had his job threatened at KCL, before the international outcry led the administration, wisely, to reconsider its plans.  But think about it:  administrators, without tenure as an obstacle of course (!), were going to fire a researcher whose work has now led to his election to the British Academy.   It would be hard to concoct a credible story about judgment this bad.