Category: Social Comment
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Tuesday’s Addled Adage
Anyone who tells you the pen is mightier than the sword has never attempted to penetrate a publishing industry run by Starbucks-tippling grads who will only read your stuff if you’re a Chinese dissident or if you were in their college at Oxford…
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Nostalgic? No!…I used to be…
All nations have them: a location in their climatology where the air is at its balmiest, the sunshine hours at their longest, The winter is forbidden ‘til December and exits March the second on the dot. By order, summer lingers through September… No, not Camelot – or anything like the magical castle of Arthurian legend, […]
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Standard Assessment Tests
Today the nation’s 6-7 and 10-11 year olds (years two and six) will set off for school knowing they have got ‘exams’. Whether it is reasonable to ask that children so early in their educational development should be subjected to pressures associated with standard assessment testing is an open debate. It certainly deserves a carefully […]
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