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On Friday I had a short conversation with two inspiring leaders from the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation schools in Slough and Tottenham. I asked [...]
November 24, 2016
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In the opening paragraph of his influential book written in 1911 entitled What Is and What Might Be, the Anglo-Irish educator, poet and writer [...]
November 19, 2016
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Milton Keynes, our great city, where even those who have lived here a short time (like me!) have learned to hold it in huge affection, is 50 next [...]
November 16, 2016
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I have refrained from talking about Donald Trump’s electoral victory partly because everyone else has not so refrained, and there are [...]
November 14, 2016
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If you were an alien (and many of you reading this blog must be), and came to visit schools in Scandinavia, you would rapidly come to some [...]
November 3, 2016
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In 1983, while accompanying some 3rd year geology students at the University of the Western Cape where I was registered as a MSc student, I [...]
November 3, 2016
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One of the best pieces of fiction in Wendell Berry’s oeuvre comes in his short novel Remembering, written in 2008. The context is that of [...]
November 2, 2016