You’ll miss them when they are gone
A reflective post and a warning for 2019. A line from Luhrmann’s song will always remind me of 2018: “be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone” […]
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An accident of birth.
Many years ago, in my first year of secondary school in Leamington Spa I recited a poem in front of my English class. Our teacher had asked us to choose […]
More from #loveEU
535 linguists in UK support a #remain vote https://t.co/RFT98pibRx #loveEU — UCML (@UCML) June 21, 2016 #loveEU #StrongerIn UK 6% of European Commission civil servants,12% of population; cos lack of […]
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Is there a hashtag for why the EU is great? And if not, what should it be? #LoveEU? — Rebecca L. Needes (@RhetoricAlley) May 17, 2016 We have a hashtag, […]
Celebrating Eurovision: #loveEU
The EU, what's it all about? https://t.co/RhO7ZCargH # #loveEU https://t.co/MPxWVSIn5H — UCML (@UCML) May 12, 2016 Let's have your photos for #hugabrit campaign so we can share the love of […]
On ownership and stewardship.
Image: NASA via wikimedia A recent trailer for a BBC programme about our planet included a soundbite which struck me so much I wrote it down: “This is our home […]
I’m no expert but…
The UK has just lived through one of the most dramatic changes in recent history. A long-discussed referendum on our membership of the European Union brought back an unexpected result […]
