Like it or not everything I say is going through my own personal filter of who I am and what I believe. In my view this is the same for every scientist, engineer, in fact just plain everyone. There is no absolute when it comes to life, that's why any good researcher looks for multiple sources that may show something contradictory to our own viewpoint.

You know what I research, you know my history, here's what else you should know.

The University of Manchester are my main employer and I do some additional technical work for the Journal of Web Semantics. I'm also paid a small amount for collaborations with Fujitsu. All is bound up with the University of Manchester and so becomes indivisible. This is all; I receive no other payments.