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@snapperup

Retired council comms. Carer. Believer in solidarity & sharing between all parts of the UK. Tam Dalyell was not wrong. #Stirling #Aberdeen #Halifax

Scotland, United Kingdom Beigetreten Ocak 2009
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Helen Saxby@helensaxby11·
Judging by the BBC reports and the Today programme, Jenni Murray's legacy has an embarrassing caveat. The only admissible tribute from @BBCWomansHour on Monday morning would be to say 'Jenni has been proved right, we were wrong, if only more of us had had her courage.' #r4today
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Helen Saxby
Helen Saxby@helensaxby11·
Jenni Murray knew what a woman was and the BBC disciplined her for expressing that truth. Harriet Harman did not defend her at the time and now says her views on what a woman was 'didn't take away' from her other work. How dare she. #r4today
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Shona Partridge
Shona Partridge@ShonaPWriter·
@snapperup 1970s, Eagle of The Ninth, The Silver Sword, 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Shakespeare, Burns, Scott, Stevenson, Grassic Gibbon, Edwin Muir, and lots more.
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In secondary school in Aberdeen in 1979/80 we covered everything from Donne to Chaucer to Burns to MacCaig to Keats to The Beatles (She's Leaving Home) for Higher English, and a great deal more. The curriculum today seems more restricted. Why would that be.
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Susan@snapperup·
@puddingbowl1905 I was thinking of poetry we did and don't remember doing any of the sonnets for Higher, although we certainly did Shall I Compare Thee at some point in my school career. But we did Othello for Higher, & Macbeth at some point, and Twelfth Night. Started lifelong love of WS for me.
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applepieandcream@puddingbowl1905·
@snapperup Not to have studied Shakespeare is a huge omission. (Did you accidentally leave it out?)
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(((Edwin Moore)))@GlasgowAlbum·
@snapperup @AloneInBerlin11 I bought an Edmund Blunden limited edn (11 of 70) at Saleroom recently - Blunden is a favourite I love his war poems and Report on Experience but goodness am struggling with some of these
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Susan@snapperup·
@KeithMa95432918 It was like 'how could 15 year old me be wrong?' See also the Nicola Sturgeon creation story.
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Keith Macdonald
Keith Macdonald@KeithMa95432918·
@snapperup @mmgeissler Belief in "independence" (no one knows what it is but it certainly doesn't exist in the way described by nationalists) is arational , more like a faith.
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Susan@snapperup·
Most interesting question for me from @mmgeissler in election interview with John Swinney on Scotcast pod was how can he be so certain in his political beliefs, principally independence? I didn't hear a clear reply. He's fundamentally believed in it since age of 15. Oh well then.
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@AloneInBerlin11 @GlasgowAlbum Doesn't seem designed to instil an appreciation for or introductory understanding of English literature. Moaning about doing six poems? Yikes. (I wonder why the preference for Duffy?)
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AloneInBerlin@AloneInBerlin11·
@snapperup @GlasgowAlbum But you only choose one of these. Certainly in Glasgow most people go for Duffy. When I retired from teaching 3 years ago people were already moaning hard about doing 6 poems and we were being told to decolonise the curriculum.. but retain the Scottish text(50%)
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A_D_PHIL@A_D_PHIL·
@hardlyperennial John overlooks the racists and xenophobes within his own party. People who live in glass houses………
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Susan@snapperup·
@GlasgowAlbum Yes, Keats paid for his admiration for Burns with his life, in a way. We were introduced to such a breadth of British literature at school, & some from America & elsewhere. Combination of Curriculum for Excellence & SNP hegemony has reduced that to shocking extent, seems to me.
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(((Edwin Moore)))@GlasgowAlbum·
@snapperup Wordsworth hailed Burns for reinventing English Verse in Scots - Keats also paid tribute. This is all anathema to the SNP racists. Love of Burns is a British tradition.
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Bob Hamstead
Bob Hamstead@berk_hamstead·
@ripx4nutmeg In the response to my complaint, the BBC conflates the experience of a man who only started cross dressing in his 50s with a woman and claims that they’re comparable. Absolutely absurd
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Susan@snapperup·
@GlasgowAlbum Absolutely. The curriculum presently seems to focus massively on MacCaig, Duffy, Lochhead. All excellent, but where's the scope and depth? And what's wrong with poetry written by poets who happen not to be Scots.
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(((Edwin Moore)))@GlasgowAlbum·
@snapperup I suspect Medieval Scots knew more Chaucer than us. Dunbar wrote the great poem on London,indeed Dunbar included English poets in Lament for the Makaris.
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Susan@snapperup·
@JohnMcS92873401 When has there ever been a discernible push to fix anything in that place?
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John McShane
John McShane@JohnMcS92873401·
@snapperup Impartially of presiding officer and committees must be two priorities for Holyrood to fix. I am not optimistic.
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It is fairly nauseating to hear Sturgeon's pious parting words to the Holyrood chamber, received by an apparently emotional Presiding Officer, and think of the frankly disgusting way she habitually spoke to political opponents who were doing their job by questioning her.
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BBC London@BBCLondonNews·
London, you're beautiful 🌅
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Neil Findlay
Neil Findlay@Neilsocialist·
@BigTree66717133 I have first hand experience of how she treated people who went to her with very genuine concerns which affected constituents - her attitude towards those who were doing their job holding her govt to account was at times disgraceful
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