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Oh, do you, Professor (or someone else?) think that the Harry Potter books are "derivative"?? I never thought so: I always thought they were pretty original; not so much in terms of the "school story" aspect (there are, after all, plenty of school stories) but in terms of all the magic; the "wizarding world", and the "fantastic beasts", some of which are from medieval bestiaries, but many of which I know to be Ms Rowling's own invention! 🙂
I know Ursula Le Guin's Wizard Of Earthsea novels quite well (or I used to); but I have never seen fit to compare the two fantasy worlds/series.
No. What I was most interested in, and struck by, when I first started reading the novels (this was as an adult) was the incorporation of, and KNOWLEDGE of, so much medieval lore: and medieval OCCULT lore, such as about the real-life (and very mysterious) alchemist, Nicholas Flamel: whom I honestly thought only fellow readers like myself, of authors like Colin Wilson, would know about. (Obviously Rowling must have done quite some medieval French reading, in that part of her degree course!)
I was glad that Rowling mentioned, but did not STICK to, only the famous (semi) historical magicians EVERYBODY has heard of, such as Merlin.
THAT I thought was original!
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I completely disagree. (As for Suella, she can do one, btw.) I disagree that "protests don't work". People should get up off their asses, and off social media (bar the filming and uploading!) A LOT MORE OFTEN. If nothing else, it is beneficial for their health, and certainly for their sense of social connection, having a day's march with like-minded people.
It depends by what you mean by "work". If you mean that goverment would change its policy: well, there were even bigger anti-war marches in 2003, and it didn't: but this just proves to you, the LONGstanding degree of out-of-touchness of the political class! The PEOPLE didn't want that war: but Bliar went ahead with it for his own interests. The whole debacle exposed Blair as a war criminal. That was the importance of it.
The VAST majority of UK people don't support Israel. The political class might, but they are wrong and out of touch. They should make like Ireland and Scotland: voice disapproval and start thinking about expelling the ambassador.
I don't know why you are going on about "mass debate" Professor: because this is a "representative" democracy (ha ha) and therefore that is the one thing that voters cannot do. Next best thing: demonstrations. (And seeing as the stupid Tories don't even have room for rapists in their prisons, I wouldn't worry too hard that people are going to be banged up for waving Palestinan flags, whatever Suella says.)
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Oh my goodness, did he just die?? ☹️
Raymond Briggs? (So many talented people dying right now: Issey Miyake, Olivia Newton John, that other Aussie singer... )
I loved Briggs too, as a kid/teen in the 1980s! 🙂👍 Fungus the Bogeyman, the Snowman of course, Father Christmas (😂!), and When The Wind Blows, the graphic novel of which was in my secondary school library in the early 1980s, along with its prequel, Gentleman Jim. But, when, a couple of years down the line, I heard they had made a movie of it, and I wanted to see it, I couldn't, because not a single cinema in Cornwall would show it! ☹️ Probably because they were all owned by Tories, giving "It's not commercial enough" as a justification. (Really meaning "Too pro-CND." 😏) Young me did actually discuss this over the phone with one of these proprietors, and he was very sniffy, as I recall! 👎 So, I didn't get to see it until years later, on video or on TV, I can't remember which.
Yes: I believe that Raymond Briggs really showed what the illustrated/comic strip format of literature was capable of. Funnily enough though, I have never heard any "comix fans" praising him to the skies! Probably because a) he was published by proper book publishers, and b) he wrote unashamedly for children - only his books were appreciated by adults too! In my view, Briggs was a LOT more talented than those two comic book wazzocks Alan Moore, and Frank Miller, to name but a few, if you'll pardon the expression! 😏
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What a pair of unfunny plonkers.
But I don't see what bearing this has on the current accusations, Professor. And that was quite a while ago, and both the pair were disciplined by the BBC, by having their radio show cancelled. And Gordon Brown even weighed in... Isn't that punishment enough?
Anyway. Brand was definitely still on the drugs/alcohol back then. Years since, he has turned his life around.
And just WHY aren't people currently re-digging-up Jonathan Ross' behaviour, and pestering him about it, then? He was DEFINITELY old and experienced enough back then, to know better. I'm not sure whether Brand was. He has emotionally grown much since.
If you want someone to blame, Professor Wilson: tell me that Jonathan Ross was irresponsible, led Brand astray, and egged him on in the case you are currently dissecting.
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Mentoring, yes, mentoring... The thing is, Professor Tim, is that most state school teachers will tell you they haven't got the TIME for individual mentoring, these days... They're spread too thin, because the Tories haven't invested nearly enough in education, as they haven't in everything else. Haven't you seen those news stories a few weeks/months ago, that said how teachers were even having to buy class supplies out of their own non-inflation-matching salaries? 😏
I believe (as many people seem to in the comments, all of which so far I have read) that teachers should play an INSPIRATIONAL role, as well as a "mentoring" one. The fact that not all teachers are inspirational, is something that still has to be addressed. I watched some programmes earlier in the 2000s that seemed to be interested in this. How to inspire working class children to take an interest in science, especially. And other subjects.
As for AI: I've tried it, it still seems fairly rubbish! Seems better at drawing pretty pictures, than either at writing or at ideas. 😏
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Claudia Webbe is "a disgraced Conservative MP"?!?!?! 🤪🤪🤪 DID I hear you aright, Professor?? 😏 Claudia is NEITHER Conservative, nor disgraced!! I had thought you better informed than this!
It is perfectly possible, and acceptable, to cross the floor, or to become an independent MP, for a variety of reasons.
Claudia Webbe was embroiled in a legal "scandal", and was later partially exonerated. (Seems her "victim" was some kind of a - lying - slag, too! 😏) Keir Starmer was of course looking for any kind of an excuse to expel her from Labour, as he has done with so many dissenting MPs, including of course Jeremy himself. (Well has Keir earned himself the sobriquet "Starmlin". 😏)
After all, Claudia is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, and she is pro-Palestine. (She also still sits on a number of committees.)
I have friends who say she is a very good MP! 🙂
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@molybdomancer195 Yeah. The point you are missing, is that the sensible person is seeking to EXPLAIN things, rather than to defend them. Personally, I'm not really very interested in people's hysterical, moralising reactions (That is unfortunately what social media brings out) and tbh, I question Professor Wilson's wisdom, in bringing up this piece of very old news, in relation to the new one. The fact of the matter, is that Brand SHOULDN'T be judged, for a "cruel and malicious act" that wasn't a crime. That is prejudicial, if you want to bandy legal terms. Idiots I encounter on the internet seldom have even a layman's knowledge of the law.
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No: I personally think that he believes and/or is invested in, every issue that he covers. (I think I know the REAL problem here 😏 - and as a neopagan, I would, as a matter of fact!! 😏) The "liberal left", because it THINKS it is rational (when it is NOT: because it generally supports all sorts of ideological frauds, such as postmodernism, and extreme forms of identity politics, such as the 1619 Project, and indeed, much of it really supports the fraud of neoliberal economics!).. Anyway. The "liberal left", because it THINKS it is rational, gets all squeamish and "hot under the collar" when people, particularly people once considered to be under their rubric, develop an interest in things "new age"; in things "fringe" and in anything not under THEIR narrow ideological umbrella. Rupert Sheldrake has had exactly this problem too. So has Graham Hancock - talk about an ancient, much older than generally supposed, world-spanning advanced civilisation - and that makes you what? "Right-wing" and "antisemitic", according to some liberal nuts - we ALL know where they're coming from, once they start with the "antisemitic"! 😏😏 And just because you go on Joe Rogan to talk about your ideas - well, it's the same as the leftists who go on Al Jazeera and Press TV. You HAVE to frequent the outlets that (for whatever reason of their own) will give you air time, simple as that.
Hence all your unreasonable talk about "grifting". 🙄
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@thigearlatha Yeah. They're a bit funny in Germany now, about people who once worked in concentration camps... They should really have a statute of limitations for that; although in a few years, it will be irrelevant. And I know what the German's motivations are for such foolishness. It's the same as British journalists etc. re Jimmy Savile. They are experiencing belated guilt, that they didn't get (any of, really - apart from the handful at the Nuremberg Trials) the "big fish", and that most people who were real Nazis were seamlessly reabsorbed into German society, and often allowed into, or to re-take-up their jobs in quite responsible professions: judges, the civil service and so on. So, because Germany and its authorities did very little to de-Nazify Germany post-war (their focus was, in many ways quite understandably, on economic reconstruction) they are making these "gestures" now. I hate gesture politics. Anyway, in order to get rid of ALL Nazis in post-war Germany, certainly all Nazi party members, you would have had to IMPRISON AT LEAST HALF THE COUNTRY; at least half of all the adult males. There are good practical reasons why countries aren't stupid enough to do such things! (DId you know, that post the Restoration of the monarchy, England had to have an amnesty, on ALL crimes committed during the English Civil War?)
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C'mon Professor!! 😏😏 Keir Starmer is a scummy little man; who will say anything to anyone, to get what he wants! Stop giving him the oxygen of credibility; it ill becomes any academic.
A speech can be "well written"; and also a complete tissue of lies. I think you need to listen to the YouTuber who calls her channel No Justice. She makes the very good point, that Starmer (and his "policies") are the complete opposite of those of Clem Attlee. The UK was far economically weaker after WWII than it is now; yet the Attlee government borrowed/spent the money, that was necessary to rebuild Britain. They even started the NHS, for Pete's sake! 😏😏 Starmer, on the other hand, thinks he can rebuild after Tory mismanagement, not through actually spending money, but through "growth". He is an idiot. Everyone says he knows nothing about economics...
Starmer has been spending his entire time in leadership, trying to convince people and the media that "he is not Jeremy Corbyn". But WHO is he putting on this act FOR?? CERTAINLY not for the majority of the electorate, the working class, I don't think. 😏 Corbyn was actually POPULAR, not only with the youth, but with the workers. You could see that, from every single walkabout he did! Starmer by contrast, is popular with NOBODY. He is constantly trying to appeal to Tory voters, which I think is a really bad tactic, as it certainly doesn't appeal to the majority of ordinary people who actually hate Tories! He won't gain any ground with workers or trade unionists, or, no need to mention, youth! (The latter have all gone Green anyway.)
The reason we weren't ALLOWED to have a Labour (Corbyn) government the last time, is because the elite and the Tory press DIDN'T WANT IT. They're the people who call the shots! There are quite a few politically aware working class people; but unfortunately they are swamped by those in the more provincial parts of the country, who have tendencies to believe in illusions such as Brexit, (And who are anti-immigrant. 😏) Were it not for this ILLUSIONARY tendency, on the part of the Red Wall, or whatever, then despite all the lies of the Murdoch press (and those of the right-wing spoilers inside the Labour party itself), Corbyn would be PM now. And that would certainly be better than what we have got! 😏)
And as for "scapegoating", Starmer has proved himself VERY ready to play that game, given by his mentions in his speech of: "We take the problem of small boats crossing seriously."
DON'T be fooled! 😏
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@Andrew-rc3vh Which Johnson? (And aren't many subjects and authors, eg Shakespeare, branded by kids as "boring". because of the uninspirational way they are taught? In fact, I was thinking about my own school experience this morning, in a context nothing to do with AI. Like in French lessons in the 1980s. They weren't quite as bad as "the pen of my aunt", but they had NOTHING to do with contemporary French culture, pop culture or anything else, and made NO attempt to include it. How can you properly learn a modern language, by being totally divorced from that country's current culture? Much of first year French vocab lessons was wasted, in trying to draw stupid drawings of objects and things. YOU try and draw a bicycle anyway, if you have no technical drawing skills! 🙄 I understand the visual element, but why weren't the students provided with STICKERS, so they could stick the diagram of the object or action in their books, and then write the word or phrase in French underneath?? I had the nous to think of that, when I was 11!
And so on. Most of the educational materials for our comprehensive school French lessons were totally uninspiring. 😏 There were kind of posters, featuring the really very boring "adventures" of a pretty arbitrary trio of schoolchildren, who appeared to be led by this young lad in a polo neck jumper, by the name of Xavier. 😏 The way the kids were dressed was already out of date, looking like they were out of the 1970s, when we were already into the 1980s. There was no reference to any modern pop culture, or really ANY modern pursuit - such as skateboarding, even! The publishers of this dross probably avoided any specific references, so that it wouldn't date so quickly - but it was already dated, and they could have updated it every year anyway. And so on. I thought it was rubbish, anyway! Although I enjoyed learning French - but it wasn't because of those lousy "Xavier strips"!! (And to THINK what marvellous bandes dessinees the French have always had, btw - and to think that our class wasn't introduced to a single ONE of them!! 🙄) And the teacher rather sloppily thought it didn't matter - but when we DID start writing essays about our favourite films, I made SURE to find out what that Hollywood movie was actually called in French! "Le retour du jedi", for example. I thought it DID matter! 😡)
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