The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

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Sunday, 31 January 2016

The ten books every child should read before leaving school (or why I hate English Literature revisited)

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"These are the ten books every child should read before they leave school" . So proclaims the headline of yet another attempt t...

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Thursday, 14 August 2014

"It's pretty much Game of Thones..." :SF, fantasy and English literature's Shakespearian creation myth

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An entirely gratuitous picture of a dragon For a very long time I played, along with other former members of Hull University Wargames S...

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

I know nothing about English Literature...except that Michael Rosen is wrong

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**** Our debate about English Literature has some certainties.. And one of these is that Michael Rosen (posh Marxist chap who wrote some c...

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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Sorry, Dame Stella, but you're wrong about children reading - and about social media

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Dame Stella Rimmington, former head girl and ex-spy is chairing the judging panel for this year’s Man Booker Prize. I suspect that part of t...

Monday, 27 December 2010

Why I hate English Literature!

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Its funny isn ’t it, those things which we get chippy about! And the sheer hypocrisy of such chippiness . However, this blogpost is about m...

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