Tag: Scotland

Orwell’s Scottish Ancestry & Slavery*

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 23, 2019

“He hated Scotsmen!” Kay Ekevall “He wrote under the name ‘Orwell’, partly because he preferred separate identity as an author, partly because he disliked […]

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In Edinburgh: Thinking About The Scottish Enlightenment & Contemporary Australia

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on October 1, 2014

“This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city […]

Posted in Featured, Travel | Tagged Edinburgh, Enlightenment, learning, Scotland | 2 Comments

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Hillary Clinton condemns UK's 'outrageous' suppression of Russia report smh.com.au/world/eur… via @smh

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In 1935 #Orwell wrote a review which opened with a typically devastating sentence that still feels perfectly pertinent for contemporary times. pic.twitter.com/VZUA…

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"if you never read yourself..." says @pasi_sahlberg in #DigiKids on abc.net.au/4corners/… one can hardly expect young people to value it. The greatest weakness of the @4corners program was it did not look at the role of parenting 4 learning in a relentless contemporary economy.

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The research has all been done and now politicians need to act. bom.gov.au/state-of-… #bushfire

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Australian fire weather represented by the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index & Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index will be a valuable resource for Australian politicians, 'when the crisis has passed'. The research has been done. bushfirecrc.com/site… #nswpol #auspol #bushfire

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Can you assist? ping @incunabula twitter.com/TheLong1…

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