Milton the Revolutionary
John Milton (1608-1674) certainly meant his writing to be influential in his own time. Living through the rebellion and Civil […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: politics
Pap Trump
Remember when Donald Trump claimed he could do anything back in 2016? I could stand in the middle of Fifth […]
Read more →Food for the Mind
How urgent is food for the mind? Keeping the brain alive is as important as sustaining the body. This has […]
Read more →Literature and Politics
It seems entirely appropriate that writers, engaging with the world around them are politically engaged. We don’t expect party politics,, […]
Read more →What Price Culture?
It’s happening again, of course. The latest dying-fish twitch of the UK government is to resume its attack on arts […]
Read more →The Ethics of Performance
An actor’s job is to pretend to be someone else. An audience applauds them for effacing themselves in order to […]
Read more →Words and their Meanings
This week the revered Oxford English Dictionary has revealed the latest words to be added to its lists, all of […]
Read more →Benjamin Zephaniah
It was saddening to hear of Benjamin Zephaniah’s untimely death last week. A dyslexic Rastafarian with limited formal education and […]
Read more →Behind George Orwell
George Orwell is well known, primarily for two novels which have enjoyed remarkable success. Many youngsters have enjoyed the animal […]
Read more →A Blinkered Approach to Arts and Education
As has been reported widely in the UK, the government has vowed to crack down on what it sees as […]
Read more →