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Teaching at the Wigan Pier Workshops for the Orwell Prize

Anna Chen – 11 October 2013, Wigan Pier workshops Some of the lovely students from the afternoon session of my Poetry Against the Cuts class at the Wigan Pier Workshops, presented by the Orwell Prize. The workshops are held in the delightful bright and airy Sunshine House Community Centre in Wigan where Barbara and her […]

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How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps: Britain next

How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy StepsPosted on August 12, 2012 Reblogged from THE HOMELESS ADJUNCT and Junct Rebellion. This is what Britain has to look forward to — we’re already halfway there. A few years back, Paul E. Lingenfelter began his report on the defunding of public education by saying, “In

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Simon Hughes dons fishnets for Tory education cuts

Ah, yes, “perception”. How very Mad Men of the Coalition. Lucky Tories never having to consider the actualité now they can hide behind the human shield of delusion provided by their LibDem juniors. Following in the footsteps of Vince Cable (Cable 0 — Satellite 3), Simon Hughes suppresses his political instinct to challenge, or at

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Michael Gove Wanted Me To Powder Him Down

Sad-sack Education Minister Michael Gove helped himself to make-up belonging to an exotic lovely and made strange demands minutes before appearing before blonde Kirsty Young, 27, at ITN’s studios in posh intellectuals’ haunt, Grays Inn Road. “It was when I was publicising The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”, said buxom press-officer Anna Chen, 22, flicking

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