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The loneliness of the blogging teacher

July 12, 2026 in News & views

A post I wrote while suffering from heat exhaustion.

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Quick look: Howl: Selected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

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These poems benefit from being read aloud, even if only to yourself.

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Review: The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from Her Novels -- two reviews in one!

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Review: The shortest history of AI -- two reviews in one!

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Review: Ways of Telling -- three reviews in one!

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Three reviews of the same book: a straight version, an outlandish version and the published version.

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After each story there is an interview with its author.

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Review: Accustomed as I am...

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As the title suggests, it’s about Basil Boothroyd’s (mis) adventures as a public speaker. In an anecdote I found particularly amusing …

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Review: The Mathematician's Library - two reviews in one!

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This wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace, and a host of other areas and people.

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Review: Hotel Exile -- two reviews in one!

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You settle down to read, and the subject of this particular vignette could be you: a teacher, a student, a mother, a brother.

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Review: Weimar -- two reviews in one!

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Weimar, the birthplace of the optimistic but short-lived republic of the same name, a place called “home” by Goethe, Liszt and Nietzsche and a mere eight kilometres from Buchenwald.

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Review: Verb Your Enthusiasm: Two reviews in one!

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No book about the craft of writing seems complete without a stern chapter on the importance of eschewing adverbs and adjectives - but what to put in their place?

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