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What do they teach these kids?
There used to be a question asked of trainee teachers: why do we teach Shakespeare and not Pinball? It’s the sort of question that got…
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Why Loving Unfashionable Art Can Lead to Success
I rather like Andrew Lloyd Webber’s work. On the rare occasions I mention this most people feel the need to tell me they don’t like…
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And through the wire…
A few years ago I bought myself an expensive phone, a change from the cheap ones I’d always used until then. I would have been…
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Should you start your novel with a fight?
Should you start your novel with a fight? It’s a good idea in one sense. I read a lot of opening chapters by beginner writers…
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How we used to write: Part one
Who remembers this? (The featured image for this post is an old Interzone rejection letter.) I’ve been clearing out my study following my retirement from…
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Jack Wedderburn and the Manatees
It’s been over ten years since I wrote Dream London. Someone asked me about this scene last weekend, the one where Jack Wedderburn gets raped…
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Reflections on 37 Years of Teaching and Retirement
This summer I’m retiring as a teacher after 37 years. As my wife points out, I’m only retiring from teaching, I will still be employed…
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What is Copilot trying to Hide?
The Atlantic has a tool that allows authors to check if their books appear on LibGen; the pirated-books database that Meta used to train AI.…
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Stevie Wonder
Last weekend I saw Stevie Wonder at the Co-op live arena in Manchester. A fantastic gig at no doubt the worst venue I’ve ever been…
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AI Made me Redundant
Yesterday, a student asked me to help him with a program he was writing in his own time. It was an impressive project, but it…
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Great Man Theory
Thomas Carlyle stated that “The History of the world is but the Biography of great men.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory Most 19th Century composers said that Beethoven was…
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Under Siege
There are a lot of reports floating around on Social Media about Microsoft using customer data from Word and Excel to train its AI models.…
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