You are NOT allowed to enjoy the Oresteia, Antigone, Mansfield Park or Persuasion.

One of the biggest complaints among university students is the rate at which we go through texts in a semester – it’s too fast if you ask me. I would love to learn about Greek tragedy, Austen’s novels and the Regency period, about the modernisation of male and female clothing and the in and outs [...]

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Technology as a fashion statement?

  Buying myself a chunky set of headphones, I pay for them at the counter and hooray for getting them at 1/3 of their original price - I asked that they be thrown in with my netbook purchase. On reflection though, it has occurred to me that I didn’t choose them for their sound quality, or so much their [...]

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R.I.P Mr. Common Sense

  Here is part of an Obituary for “The Late Mr Common Sense”, which I recently read in a local school newsletter. “Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows how old he was, since his birth records were long [...]

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