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The View from Across La Manche #3 – From our own correspondent

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In which we look at Spring, Campaigning and French Country Music bands… A week may be a long time in politics, but a month would seem to be a lifetime where politics is concerned! When I […]
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When does education end and humiliation begin? Every year before COVID there was one activity that the whole school took part in at the same time in the same place. It inspired love, loathing, hatred, imaginative […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 49

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Pandemic forgotten ( ignored) school life returns to near normal.. It’s a remarkable thing the human memory, despite the devastating impact of Covid in all aspects of our lives, schools in particular felt it’s seismic grip, […]
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Sounds from the Shed – Week 48: How do you explain

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How do you explain …. One of the things that has been thrown to the wolves in recent years with the drive towards results driven statistics is the sense of a holistic education wherein teachers use […]
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What should I do, Americana UK?

March 3, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1
Another day, another problem – and as the advice bureau’s postbag was starting to fill up once more we really thought it was time to put aside such fripperies as featured tracks and album reviews and […]

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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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