Susan
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Susan
@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 가입일 Ocak 2009
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Because our brains have shrunk?
Susan@snapperup
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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@LucyHunterB Excellent points. The whole baby box project driven by vague general (Scottish, naturally) niceness, not thought-through practical input for right people at right time with right back-up.
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This caught my eye, because the only aspect of the baby box that justifies the (significantly cost-increasing) box bit that plausibly relates to infant mortality was that it might reduce co-sleeping, by providing chaotic or very low income parents with a separate bed from day 1./
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The best tribute to Jenni Murray would be an announcement that Woman's Hour was reverting to being just that.
BBC Radio 4@BBCRadio4
Dame Jenni Murray, best known for presenting BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour from 1987 to 2020, has sadly died at the age of 75. Mohit Bakaya, Controller, BBC Radio 4 and Director of BBC Speech Audio has paid tribute tribute to Dame Jenni. “Jenni Murray was a formidable voice in British broadcasting who was warm, fearless and beloved by listeners,” he said. “During her decades at Woman’s Hour, she helped shape the national conversation with intelligence, rigour and a remarkable ability to connect with audiences. Jenni leaves an indelible legacy on generations of listeners. “We are profoundly grateful for her outstanding contribution to Radio 4, and she will be deeply missed.”
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@pde158 @puddingbowl1905 We did some 'modern' drama - I remember doing Beckett and Brecht for example.
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@puddingbowl1905 @snapperup I’m not sure why it’s a huge omission. It was very boring compared to some of the more modern playwrights we had the opportunity to study.
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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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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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@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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@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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@snapperup Not to have studied Shakespeare is a huge omission. (Did you accidentally leave it out?)
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@snapperup @AloneInBerlin11 I certainly need help with the collection I just bought, Will try again with gin
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@GlasgowAlbum @AloneInBerlin11 I like it very much. Think I'll need to re-read several times to unravel.
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@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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@KeithMa95432918 It was like 'how could 15 year old me be wrong?' See also the Nicola Sturgeon creation story.
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@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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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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@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 @hardlyperennial Yes. He should study a transcript from his recent one-day conference.
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@hardlyperennial John overlooks the racists and xenophobes within his own party.
People who live in glass houses………
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John Swinney is calling a significant proportion of the Scottish electorate racist.
Craig Meighan@craigymeighan
Some Reform UK voters are racist, John Swinney tells me at Scottish Parliament huddle.
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@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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@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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