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“If you don’t know who Mozart is how are you meant to, later on in life, take your rich client out for dinner and hold a culturally literate conversation?” This

This is indeed the popular British narrative -- that Britain's role in the slave trade was to end it, that the British empire decolonised so much more peacefully than the

You need to be careful when marinading your students in neo-marxist ideology -- too little salt, and they will be flavourless, but too much salt and the meat will be

This is the other problem with f2f teaching during a pandemic. Say you have one student who gets CV19. They go to three seminars the week before their diagnosis, with

This is all a huge mess, but my heart especially goes out to people who obeyed the guidelines, and didn't see dying loved ones, and now feel like maybe they

The way we think about and talk about “stupidity” in Britain is both quite interesting and also not very helpful, imohttps://twitter.com/johnjcrace/status/1264471335042002947 It’s a sort of denial of class — the

Government slogans were criticised continually and a lot of government propaganda was confusing or ineffective. People were absolutely asking questions about why Britain couldn’t stop raids or why there wasn’t

oh my loves, it is possible to have a conversation about the gendered inequalities of domestic labour and still not require working class women to visit multiple houses and use

Obviously I think this whole piece is utterly ridiculous, and I’m sure the journalist would argue that’s just my innate bias (in favour of... the concept of education, I guess?)

The thing I struggle to articulate about grammar schools sometimes is the fact that if you’re involved enough in your kids’ education to get them into a grammar school, your

have been thinking for a while about whether there is a different attitude to The University as an entity among academics who studied pre-fees, and academics who paid for their

I can't quite work this into a coherent thought, but Richard Branson pleading for state subsidies, the same Richard Branson who sued the NHS in 2016, right now, as people