Trying to imagine what the future will look like can make your brain wibble-wobble in all sorts of uncomfortable ways.
For some reason when people envisage the future, cities looks quite like they do now but they’re curvier and have random flying pods zooming about.
Everything is also crystal clean sparkly clear and the [...]
I received an email ages ago, an email I’ve been ignoring because I wasn’t sure how to answer it. The essential question I was asked was how to go about studying English and specifically “imagine if a student had an A1 essay on anything that could possibly come up – how could you [...]
I’ve just stumbled upon this essay I wrote while doing my H.Dip. It’s no masterpiece but I found it interesting (if a little cringeworthy) to read on a few levels. In many ways it’s like a time capsule, written 10yrs ago and making no reference whatsoever to visual texts, social media, blogging or [...]
The exam hall is probably the least condusive environment for inspiration known to humankind. It is a weird pressure cooker of silence and ticking clocks, all tinged with the internal panic of knowing that 37% of your grade in English relies on you finding something to say and saying it well for QB [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month you’ll have heard of Kony 2012. Watched by over 77 million people (as of the 14th March), it has sparked an incredibly heated debate worldwide about the nature of social activism. This video certainly demonstrates the power of social media to spread awareness. It [...]
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