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Tuesday, 25th August (Cres)

Claude has either just led me up the garden path half a dozen times or has enabled me to fix a complicated internet connection problem on this laptop – DNS this and DNS that – that I couldn’t have managed … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 20th August (Cres)

1. Alan Milburn has just completed a substantial report for the UK government on Young People and Work https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/young-people-and-work-interim-report PDFs of both the whole report and of the introductory section only below. This Review exists because today Britain faces a … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 18th August (Cres)

1. More – perhaps the last word, for this blog at least – on Jason Arday, again from Tyler Austin Harper (whose Why I Quit the Tenure Track piece I included last Thursday) in The Atlantic, The Truths That Failed … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 13th August (Cres)

1. If you follow Geoff Jordan on LinkedIn, you’ll know that he’s a man of strong views https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-jordan-0a7658219/ Courtesy of Geoff, here’s a whole book of strong opinions to start with tonight, English Language Teaching Now and How It Could … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 11th August (Cres)

1. Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist for Google Research and Google DeepMind, gave a talk at Princeton University earlier this year on Important Trends in AI: How Did We Get Here, What Can We Do Now, and Where are We Headed? … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 6th August (Cres)

1. Cross fingers crossed for this first one, a BBC video of Gregory Burke’s play, The Black Watch, described by the BBC as a “hard-hitting play, based on interviews with former soldiers, that combines words, music and song to deliver … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 4th August (Cres)

1. Field Station describes itself as an action lab investigating the future of work, the reach of technology, and the shape of society. Based in North East England, working globally. We study digital sovereignty and build civic tech, in the … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 30th July (Cres)

The wifi’s much better if you sit at the front of the library, it seems! 1. Pride of place today to English Teacher – a memoir by John Drew, described by John as a compilation of portraits and anecdotes shading … Continue reading →

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Wednesday, 29th July (Cres)

Time moves a little more slowly here on the island, as does the wifi, which is why this message is a little late! 1. A piece from Ol’ Grumpy, a.k.a. Richard Watson Todd, with which to resume normal service, Brave … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 30th June (Cambridge)

This will be the last ‘Free Resources’ message until Tuesday 28th July, by which time (Cross fingers crossed) we will have installed a new boiler in Boba’s Zagreb flat, not (Cross fingers still crossed) had to fish Mateo out of … Continue reading →

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