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Cultural studies this was widely taught in universities and colleges. it came and went Why it is what we bring to the book it is what we read into art i love cultural studies when i was a student i had never heard of the words cultural studies i called it 'reading round the subject' i was good at it it is not a lazy study it is what we put into to it xxray schaufeld early example of cultural studies is an the book Division street Chicago. w...

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/david-baddiel-jews-dont-count A quote attributed to Mark Twain, but perhaps not said by Mark Twain, the great American writer and humourist goes something like this: ‘What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.’ David Baddiel shows footage of the moron’s moron supporters of the 45 th American President chanting, ‘We will not be replaced by the Jews.’ It...

Metal Box Perivale Bang clang the shutters the works leaver do of Reg Sweeney a dapper old rogue Reg has drunk in the Hop Bine the Century the football place here we are drinking lads and lasses BOTTOMS UP burby hic heigh ho raise your glasses to lynette revelle with her short skits and shoes me dancing spirit in the sky at Minys youth Club some time back Norman Greenbaum Harrow on the Hill near Northwick Park Hospital the machiners are drinking...

It was easy to deactivate my Twitter Account. For the past four years, I found it easy (too easy at times) to get mired in in pointless arguments - especially the toxicity of the Brexit debate. I lost sight of why I was on the platform; primarily to sell my books and engage with the writing community. I would close my laptop fueled in anger and hurt. Both on a personal level - I received threats on my time line and watching educated and...

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trance do you remember when the eyemake up compacts Maybelline the factory at the Industrial Estate Wembley Park Bottom line money 50 per hour or 55p for 'going on the machines' Santos the forelady make very rude moves with her hose when she washed the floor I was surprized that Indiands could be as rude as us Old Margaret (Wilkinson the Family Rality TV do you remember when and that music ha ha ha the Family Gary Karen Tom Timmy etc yaya...

Catherine Simpson is around the same age as me. We’ve both received a little largesse from Scottish Book Trust. Her story is in the title. Most readers understand intuitively with the use of the past tense that her wee sister, Tricia, has passed over. In plainer terms, she’s dead. She died in December 2013, aged 46. My brother died around 1995. My partner’s brother died around the same time. They were both in their mid-thirties. Mother and...

Jose Saramago won The Nobel Prize for Literature, but his writing wasn’t widely published or read until the Portuguese writer was in his sixties. That gives some of us hope. His translator died before finishing revisions. The publisher acknowledged the help of Margaret Jill Costa. That’s the kind of blurb you can pick up from any book trailer. Those are his credentials. I didn’t like the writing (maybe it was the translation). It was the story...