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Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
I just discovered Charles Stross today, via an article of his subtitled "Kids of Tomorrow" that was reprinted in The Japan News. Wow. It was AMAZING. I found I had goosebumps at least three times before I put the piece...
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Charlie Stross commented on
The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
You're missing out: "1066 and all that" is hysterically funny. Even though I was subjected to the JMB 'O' level history syllabus in the late 1970s/early 1980s, it rang true -- that style of history teaching didn't go out of style before 1980, and as I understand it Michael Gove really really wants to resurrect it....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
For "sausage" read "hostage" For "Pheasant" read "peasant", throughout .... From memory ........
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Sasquatch commented on
The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
American High School History standards are not quite that bad, although I am not totally qualified to judge being outside the system and having a degree in the field. (Pull my String and hear my rant about the Nazi Glorification aspect of ALL Anglo-Saxon popular treatment of WW II, Da, Tovarich?). So I tend to notice and be aware of details that are entirely overlooked. And I'm OLD, I need to write a blog entry about how much higher quality historical information was available to me forty years ago (gah) than today, was just looking at an old Ballantine War...
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akicif commented on
The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
Indeed - several of the American reviews purported for humorous effect to be confused by all the Lincolns.......
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akicif commented on
The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
Reprinted in the Chicago Tribune, too.......
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