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Posted on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018

Lincoln Allison on Belloc and the lost art of declamation

Looking for something else entirely, I come across this piece from 2005 on the Social Affairs Unit Blog by Lincoln Allison on Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Verses. Allison begins with a…

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Posted on August 17, 2018

“the conformist anti-conformity of the books marketed at my generation” – my thoughts on “record store books”, March 17th 2005 SAU Blog

On St Patrick’s Day 2005 this piece appeared on the SAU Blog. It is somewhat in the spirit of my grumpy thoughts on book clubs from 2006 in the same…

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Posted on August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

Review of “Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke” by Rob Long, SAU Blog, 5th July 2006

Around the time I wrote this I was partial to insider accounts of film-making, and was favourably impressed with the sheer amount of time wasting this seemed to involve. I…

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Posted on October 8, 2016October 8, 2016

Grumpy thoughts on Book Clubs from 2006 in the SAU Blog

Well, perhaps not that grumpy. The link to the “long list” of One Book books is now broken, I’m afraid. I think I am more benign about this idea now – after…

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Posted on September 16, 2016September 16, 2016

Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death 31 years on

I read quite a lot of Neil Postman about a decade ago. Always a readable and provocative voice, I must admit I take him rather less seriously since reading more…

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Posted on September 16, 2016November 15, 2018

The cultural hegemony of television: review of “Everything Bad is Good For You” by Steven Johnson – SAU Blog Dec 6, 2006

  One of the disheartening things (for me) about how the online world has developed is the primacy of television as a cultural reference point. In the early years of…

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