eleanorporter.bsky.social
Reads, writes. Open University AL. Walks Malverns, mostly with dog; hopes things will get better. Books:The Wheelwright’s Daughter & The Good Wife
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Doesn’t mention Katherine Franke or Maura Finkelstein and others of course. It must be knowing hypocrisy surely
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But then again we let Johnson in - maybe as nasty, just with less power (telling he doesn’t appear to have condemned Trump- so much for his solidarity with Ukraine)
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Exactly
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Exactly
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Usually, but occasionally spouse
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Middle English had ‘leman’ - maybe worth reviving?
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And his brother knighted for charity work!
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He list me in The Last Battle (I think) when Sudan was barred from heaven because she’d started wearing make-up
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Totally fair enough. I loved The Uses of Enchantment when I first read it (made it all the more distressing finding out about him). I’m the mother of an autistic person so probably particularly sensitive about his nastiness
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Hmm - all true but it’s like recommending Boris Johnson pieties on the importance if integrity (I bet he’s published some) or Paula Vennells on kindness-Bettelheim wrecked lives and abused children. Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes a good antidote
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Yes so much weather in them. Love Wulf and Eadwacer too
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You are so right @eleanorporter.bsky.social. See the work of the @englishassociation.bsky.social and Globe Education Summit on the Reform of GCSE English englishassociation.ac.uk/summit-on-th...
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Excellent article thank you
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from now until the last day, barring terrible brain injury, there will always be something new to learn. it is a constant in our world.
(and pro-tip: if you want to do it seriously but haven't much spare cash, second-hand Open Uni textbooks are cheap and very well thought-through)
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Lovely. Here’s a Herefordshire one shining today