by admin | Jan 13, 2025 | Education Articles
Outside one of our soccer stadiums there are very helpful and clear signs indicating where team buses should go and also for parking for VIPs; in fact, interestingly, there are also now signs for VVIPs. So, being a Very Important Person is not enough of a...
by admin | Jan 5, 2025 | Education Articles
It is interesting (or perhaps just a coincidence) that in fairy tales and nursery rhymes there often appear to be three animals. We have three blind mice, not knowing what they are doing (heading in different directions); we have the three bears with Goldilocks, all...
by admin | Jan 5, 2025 | Sports Articles
It is one of professional sport’s most ridiculous requirements that managers and even players are put through post-match interviews and pre-match press conferences where the questions tend to be inane, provocative, wearisome, irrelevant, unnecessary and ignoble. They...
by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Education Articles
It is interesting to compare the classic film Dead Poets Society to the film we considered in a previous article, Grease. Both were set in schools in America, following teenagers as they searched for their identity; one was set in 1958 and the other in 1959. Both...
by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Standard People
The hugely-popular film Grease (astonishingly only a PG rating), starring John Travolta and Olivia-Newton-John, was made in 1978 but was set in Chicago in 1959, and set out to portray teenagers struggling to come to terms with their identity amid the pressures of...
