Thursday 31 October 2019

and they're off! how the world sees the uk election

How is the rest of the world covering the UK election?

India:
December election? UK ponders early, Brexit-dominated vote
British MPs vote in favour of holding general elections on December 12 - Times of India

Japan:
U.K. 'Remainers' hope tactical voting can stop Brexit | The Japan Times
UK party leaders clash ahead of election | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Nigeria:
How to vote tactically in the 2019 UK general election - Pulse Nigeria
UK going to the polls on December 12 | P.M. News

Russia:
BoJo’s motto? If at first you don’t succeed...try, try and try again - MPs to vote on winter snap poll — RT UK News
UKIP Member: 'Corbyn Will Lose Seats in Any General Election That’s Called Any Time Soon' - Sputnik International

Australia:
Brexit: UK election to bring hope to Jeremy Corbyn of toppling Boris Johnson
Pound to Australian Dollar forecast: General Election could hurt the Pound - Pound Sterling Forecast
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Wednesday 23 October 2019

brexit: "the majority of leave voters were middle class. most lived in the south of england."

Here's the latest from the Guardian:

Seven years ago, a group of Tory MPs published a book entitled Britannia Unchained that argued that Britain “rewards laziness”, that British workers were “the worst idlers in the world”, and that “too many people in Britain prefer a lie-in to hard work”. Businesses were deterred from hiring people, they claimed, because of employment laws that made them fear “taking a risk and hiring new staff”. The solution? Repealing those laws – or what should more accurately be described as rights. Three of the book’s authors are now in the cabinet: Priti Patel, Dominic Raab and Liz Truss.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit dream is to shred workers’ rights and social protections | Owen Jones | Opinion | The Guardian

Here's more on the book:
Britannia Unchained - Wikipedia

The Guardian

Want to know what a Boris Johnson government would look like? I have just the book

All five of the Britannia Unchained gang are now supporters of Boris Johnson. They may be wincing at his scattergun spending pledges, but ...

Jul 7, 2019

New Statesman

Britannia Unchained: the free-market book that defines Boris Johnson's new cabinet

But among such banal paraphernalia lies a copy of Britannia Unchained, a free-market tract co-authored in 2012 by five recently-elected ...

Jul 24, 2019

Here's another book:
Rule Britannia | Biteback Publishing
(Mis)Rule Britannia: Brexit is the last gasp of empire | LSE BREXIT

With comment from the Guardian:

Who voted for Brexit:
Again and again, they have been characterised as “the left behind”: poor, neglected, Labour-inclined voters from the north of England. The reality that Brexit is essentially a rightwing project – to deregulate the British economy for the benefit of more hard-nosed, non-EU capitalism – has been largely obscured. Since 2016, a few dissenting academics, most prominently the Oxford University geographer Danny Dorling, have produced strong evidence that more Brexit voters were, in fact, prosperous Conservatives from southern England. But these interventions have hardly dented the conventional wisdom. From BBC vox pops to tabloid editorials to Labour shadow cabinet meetings, “left-behind” leavers still loom disproportionately large. Remainers have been unable to identify and promote a similarly marketable political cohort of their own.

The campaign to stop Brexit has never found the right words | Andy Beckett | Opinion | The Guardian

And more comment from its writer:
Danny Dorling News on Twitter: "More of the British working class did not vote at all, than voted to Leave. The majority of Leave voters were middle class. Most lived in the south of England. There is so much about Brexit that is not understood including simple statistics about the vote itself. All in this book… https://t.co/Mcm0OWb6Lx"

And it's also in the news:

MENAFN.COM

Brexit: how the end of Britain's empire led to rising inequality that helped Leave to victory

And as we argued in a recent book,Rule Britannia: From Brexit to the end of Empire , these echoes had a strong influence on why some of the ...

5 days ago

The Guardian

The fantasy of Britain at war could be nearing its last hurrah

After all this time, these things are ingrained in the Brexit moment and the ... By the time they were even aware of such things, the end of the second ... as keen as them on the idea that Britannia could once again rule the waves ... of camp, and the supposed glories of war and empire were suddenly sent up?

1 week ago

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Monday 21 October 2019

voice tube: videos to help language learning

In the latest edition of English Teaching Professional magazine:

Russell Stannard describes how he uses VoiceTube and its useful note-taking facility to help his students get more out of videos.

Technology | ETp

Here are a couple more reviews:
VoiceTube | AngelList
Review #90: VoiceTube – Mobile Learning @ EdUHK
VoiceTube - English Learning for iOS - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com

Here's the very easy-to-use app:

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