Funding crisis? Not another one...

What goes around comes around, and the start of 2026 has, for particle physicists of my vintage, brought strong feelings of deja vu . These harken back to 2007, when the UK government self-inflicted a funding crisis with the creation of STFC , the UK agency that has since then funded our fundamental science research. For those new to the issues old and/or new, sit back, this is going to take a bit…