Author: KB
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#Cumbrian #Floods | Once in a 1000 Years?
Lovely cartoon in The Independent today summed up the idiocy of the Environment Agency’s pleas that they’d done enough by building flood defenses based on 100-year worst flood data. It’s a new world. The old records may as well be ripped up.
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#Humanists Need to Give Children Choice Too
The people who brought you the ‘there’s probably no God, so just relax and get on with life’ have created a new campaign aimed at parents. They want to encourage parents to give their children freedom of choice. The campaign urges parents not to label children with their beliefs. The key problem here is, of…
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From the Archives: Digital Art = ‘End of the Original’?
Been digging through a few old posts recently and came across something I’d written nearly 4 years ago now which I thought I’d give another airing – all about digital art and the ‘end of the original.’ Check the source code for the link at the end of the post. Just love it.
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Why #Education Isn’t Educating | Teaching, Not Socialisation
I don’t mention a great deal here about my work as a teacher in London, but a book review in The Observer this weekend made me want to post something. The thrust of Frank Furedi’s book Why Education Isn’t Educating is well caught in a paragraph in the review, in which Rafael Behr notes: There…
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What the Dickens! | Disney, I’m Disappointed in You | A Christmas Carol
I mean, first of all, this is ‘Disney’s A Christmas Carol‘, right? Am I missing something, or didn’t Charles Dickens have something to do with the story? And secondly, I thought this was meant to be a family movie. But looking at the expression on that guy’s face as he straddles that thing mouth wide…
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Remembrance Day Poem | We Should F-ing Remember Them
Remembrance Day Poem With our scalpels and injections, We shall not grow old, as those that are left behind grow old With our prozac and uppers, our sweetened memories and revisionist histories Age shall not weary us, nor the years of war condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning We…