
Protection Amid Chaos: The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps
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The right to own property is something we generally take for granted. For refugees living in camps,...

Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy
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Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our 'throwaway society' by developing powerful...

Photography, History, Difference
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Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and...

Good Ideas: How to be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher
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We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines,...
Celestina and the Human Condition in Early Modern Spain and Italy
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Winner of the 2015 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and...

Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory
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Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in...

ClareR (5879 KP) rated One of Them in Books
May 12, 2021
Well. I would say that I’m firmly in the anti- public/ private school camp, but I can’t find any fault in Musa’s education. He seems to have really enjoyed his time at Eton. He received a well-rounded education, and it comes across, largely speaking, as a caring institution. He does have some trouble with other boys: racist comments for example. He doesn’t seem to register these instances, and only finds out through another ex-student once he has left.
I liked how Musa looks at the reasons behind Brexit, about our continuing culture of the ‘Haves’ and “Have Nots’, and how if those who went to institutions such as Eton were less self-serving, just how much good they could contribute to this country. Instead, their attitudes seem to have contributed to the rise of the far right.
It’s a really interesting, if short, book, and well worth a read.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole, Unbound and to Musa for reading along.

British Embassies: Their Diplomatic and Architectural History
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British Embassies have a special role in our history. They represent our country in bricks and stone...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated We Summon the Darkness (2019) in Movies
Jan 5, 2021
