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My Top 10 School Movies

After 22 years working in BBC radio, a few years ago I retrained as a teacher, and this morning I started to think about how teachers and schools have been portrayed in the movies over the years, and how this … Continue reading

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Windbreaks are well Brexit

Last summer I got a bit obsessed with windbreaks and started photographing them. I liked their colour, their Britishness, the opportunity they afforded for a bit of sub-Martin Parr brightly-coloured photography. This year I see them in a slightly more … Continue reading

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Prime real estate

We were walking round the back of the O2 in Greenwich today and saw this artwork marking the Greenwich Meridian. I wondered why there seemed to be several different lines marked on the ground, one of which had some white … Continue reading

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Are we all meant to be racist now, Father?

I have a confession to make: I am a bigot. Let me explain. I voted Remain in the EU referendum and was angry, upset, dismayed, asthmatic at the result. For me it was a binary choice, the ballot paper looked … Continue reading

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3 ways of making sound with the BBC MicroBit

Games on the MicroBit are way more fun when they make noise. Here are 3 ways of making sound that I’ve tried with things I had lying around the house, in ascending order of usefulness / awesomeness: 1) A loudspeaker. … Continue reading

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