Michael Rosen

A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.

Monday, 30 March 2015

"Tell them they're better off"

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The King summoned his Great Adviser and said to him, 'Listen, the people are saying that they can't feed themselves, they can't ...

Toryconomics

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Britain’s deficit was £48billion larger than forecast when the Coalition took power as less income tax than expected flowed into Treasury co...

Sunday, 29 March 2015

New poem: Shirts

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I had two light blue shirts. They were identical. Exactly the same. Just two of them. I didn't buy them. They were given to me by a TV c...

Saturday, 21 March 2015

New poem: Faint whistling sound

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Sometimes you're sitting in a quiet room and you hear a faint whistling sound. It's not continuous, it comes and goes. It seems to b...

Friday, 20 March 2015

Trevor Phillips- journey from anti-multiculturalist to race-obsessive

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Trevor Phillips, the anti-multiculturalist, has turned into the race-obsessive. In an article in the Daily Mail and on Channel 4 he has chu...

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Using the deficit argument to smash public services

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In the post-Budget fog, there are occasional dissident voices that say something along the lines that obsessing about small differences in ...

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

"Hey - what he said is in the book!"

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When I do my poetry shows in schools, I always say that very nearly everything I'm saying can be found in my books. So, some of what I...

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