01/08/2026
Something to say
22/07/2026
UK reindustrialisation
UK reindustrialisation by Malcolm Mackley 22.07.2026 At the current age of 79, I am old enough as a teenager to have enjoyed the social revolution of the 1970s with the UK leading such things as the emancipation of women, pop music and also possessing world leading chemical companies such as ICI, world leading food companies […]02/07/2026
UK gas energy supply
I sent a letter to my local paper, the Salcombe and Kingsbridge Gazette and they have now published a version (17.07.2026) some five weeks later. The message is important, particularly as I feel passionate about the need to get the UK out of a very serious financial position in order for the current population at […]09/06/2026
Parliamentary Committee on University Fees
Parliamentary Committee on University Fees In June 2026, there was a parliamentary inquiry on University Fees and I sent the email below to all members of the committee. Within seconds I received an automatic response from each of them stating that unless I was living within their own Parliamentary constituency, I would not get a […]26/01/2026
UK Prime Ministers during my lifetime.
I was born in 1947, and it took 20 years before I became aware of or interested in UK political issues. Subsequently, various Prime Ministers have come and gone, and it is only now, (2026) at the age of 78, that I realise just how important countries’ prime ministers are. Below is a list of […]11/03/2026
UK Energy Madness
UK Energy Madness By Malcolm Mackley Over the last twenty years, the USA has utilized fracking technology to enable them to become the world’s largest fossil fuel gas supplier, and this has helped the USA government to be globally bold in their current actions. During this same period successive UK governments have strived to make […]17/02/2026
Prof Ted Roberts, A Random walk from Oscillatory flow to Pulsatile Current
This video is one of a series of talks organised by Ray Liang (West Virginia University, USA) in relation to the Cambridge Polymer Fluids Group that existed between 1980-2010 in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University. Go to the YouTube link below Ted Roberts Talk 14.02.202618/05/2025
Gareth McKinley 2025 presentation
In 2025, Prof Gareth McKinley gave a presentation to ex Cambridge, Polymer Fluids Group members on certain scientific rheology topics and his life at MIT. Use the the link below to view his talk. Gareths Talk31/03/2025
Developments in Cambridge Rheometry
Since my retirement at Cambridge . Tri Tuladhar has been busy developing two rheometer devices, The ‘Trijet PAV’ and the ‘Trimaster Filament stretching’ apparatus. This short article below by Tri, Bart Hallmark and Myself, outline recent developments of the two apparatus. You will need to click onto the link below to view the pdf article […]21/06/2025
2025 Interview by Robin Ansell on my academic life
This video interview took place in 2025 as part of a Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) initiative at Cambridge to have a historical record of life within the Department. My own academic experiences started in 1968. I retired from Cambridge in 2011 however I have continued to remain interested in the learning process […]Fiction books
My first fiction book, in a trilogy of three was Daymouth (which is really Salcombe!) and the book introduces Adam Ranworth who adjusts from London life to living in what many would consider to be an idyllic UK Devon estuary town.
My second book Super Salcombe will be published in October 2026. It is a gripping contemporary novel 
about important global inventions and clandestine operations that take place in a very unlikely setting of the Headland House estate, near Salcombe
I am currently writing a final book of the trilogy, Sensational Salcombe where events that occur in Salcombe affect the South Devon peninsular, the UK and the world! Incredible things happen that are barely believable!