by admin | Aug 15, 2020 | Reading
This week A-level results have dominated the UK news. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, students could not sit their exams. The UK government has allocated grades based on mock exams, teacher estimates and most controversially algorithmic logic. The aftermath has been...
by admin | Mar 28, 2020 | Reading, Writing
Corona virus, lockdown, another blog post. Wherever you look there are terrible times occurring. It’s crazy, right? As I type this blog I’m shocked at how quickly things have changed. Two weeks ago I sat alone, headphones in, creatively writing in my free...
by admin | Sep 13, 2019 | Reading, Writing
This week I finished the Pultzier prize winning Maus. It’s a graphic novel where the author Spiegelman interviews his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work utilises postmodernist techniques and presents Jews as mice with the...
by admin | Mar 21, 2019 | Reading
Every January anybody who attends a gym sees the same pattern. A flurry of new members join with New Year Resolutions to get in shape. These enthusiastic members block the squat racks and fill the treadmills motivated to create the physiques they have always wanted....
by admin | Mar 8, 2019 | Reading
December 1st, 2018. After twelve grueling rounds in the boxing ring, Tyson Fury lays motionless on the canvas after a savage combination. His opponent Deontay Wilder sprints away in celebration and looks to have clawed victory from the jaws of a points defeat. Yet...
