GCSE results: headteacher attacks Michael Gove over marking butchery | Education | The Guardian. “Grade boundaries can change from exam series to exam series. Decisions on grade boundaries are made after the assessments have been taken, based on all the available evidence. In the summer, more information was available about performance across the...
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I’ve been reading again (at the moment it’s Hans Fallada’s ‘Alone in Berlin’) and listening to lots of great podcasts about books. On the way in to work this morning, I was listening to Mariella Frostrup discuss Lionel Shriver’s new novel with that author. Later on in the piece they mentioned a book called...
Read more →A couple of weeks ago I took out ‘the Martian Chronicles’ from our local library. I first read them years ago, along with Fahrenheit 451. I read both too quickly back then, and enjoyed the Martian Chronicles much more the second time, especially There Will Come Soft Rains. I was surprised to hear that...
Read more →I’ve just finished reading ‘The Sea, The Sea’ by Iris Murdoch, which I have really enjoyed. I thought I’d read some of the things that others thought, and there are some really interesting ideas in the links below. For what it’s worth – I really enjoyed reading about Charles Arrowby’s self deception. There are...
Read more →Generation Game, originally uploaded by ed.podesta. Great Nanny took a flight over to see us, not just to play snakes and ladders with Maddy, but partly…
Read more →Guardian Science fiction roundup – reviews http://gu.com/p/36k5k After the fall etc looks especially good. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce – review http://gu.com/p/36jcm
Read more →This week being the holidays I have some time to sit and think (a little). As ever in these moments, when lack of work forces me to try to remember what I’m interested in, I turn to Radio 4. I’d pay three times the Licence Fee just to keep listening to Radio 4. Two...
Read more →Got to love The Guardian. The neuroscience of Bob Dylan’s genius http://gu.com/p/36kg2
Read more →Woah, this looks good.
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