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Category Archive: Phil Hall
By Phil Hall For most of the journey I was slap up against a secretary from Mexico City. […]
This is a painful, personal and political subject that affects us all. By Phil Hall Cleaning can be […]
Was Noah Webster right to try to rationalise the spelling of English? By Phil Hall How terribly irritating […]
In a society based on love and mutual support, information will flow. By Phil Hall We need original […]
It’s a failure of the imagination. By Phil Hall The US military defense establishment has now admitted that […]
No one wants to be lead by donkeys, or dangerous buffoons like Boris Johnson. But who imagines that the Naxalites (or the Sikh farmers) can govern in India? Who thinks the Zapatistas should rule in Chiapas, or Sendero Luminoso in Peru? Who agrees that certain key Brexit voting communities in the north should be the ones to decide the future of the UK.
The Chinese student (was his name Bo?) told the professor what the problem was. Greenbaum looked down. He studied the page. Then he looked up and said to to the Chinese student.
‘Thank you very much. You are right. I will send a note to the publisher to make the change in the next edition.’
And there we have it. One of the greatest authorities working in English Grammer, with the book that won him the OM, conceding to a non-native speaker that he had made a mistake and thanking him for pointing it out.
A bad native speaker teacher sees the British as we and the students as they, as ‘Johnny foreigner’. […]
Socialists need to reconnect with religion By Philip Hall I’ve recently decided to become a Quaker. I went […]
By Philip Hall + It was the Albanian maid, Meera who discovered it. ‘There is an animal in […]
In the spirit of Mayakovsky The World is Sick of Dreaming Sometimes I wish my bed were as […]
Keir Starmer has now alienated the best and the most idealistic people in the Labour Party By Phil […]
At Kit’s Coty the Ancestors Spoke. They said: ‘We all belong’. By Phil Hall Well, 2007 was a […]
By Phil Hall Someone from the countryside was selling a young bush-baby in a corner of Dar-es-Salaam market. Mom was […]
We feel desolate at the squandering of such an enormous opportunity By Phil Hall After the failure of […]
By Felipe Elvira Imagine waking up in Uruapan. Many thousands of Uruapenses who have crossed the border over […]
Language learning is ontological By Philip Hall For more than 30 years I have been teaching people how […]
My march through the relative silence of nine years Has brought me to a small house With a […]
By Phil Hall The first guided client to be ushered up the slopes of Chomolungma-Sagarmatha by Sherpa Tenzing […]
The moment has come for the soft left to develop a backbone and make a stand against reactionary […]
We grew up up understanding that nature is wild and and dangerous. By Phil Hall In a film […]
Global warming is real, but it is not an excuse for misanthropes to voice their hatred of humanity. […]
Everyday working class, fascism is real by Phil Hall One of the dirty secrets of history is that […]
– like Richard Steinhardt By Phil Hall Grandpa was an admirer of Napoleon and this was partly why […]
In the USA racism is the collateral damage caused by social inequality and injustice, and a history of […]
Che appeals to revolutionary fantasists who like the poetry of violence. By Phil Hall When we watched a […]
One of the greatest pleasures in my grandfather’s life was to visit the market in Cannes, to admire […]
LISTEN TO THE LEFT STARMER, OR GO! Masks off! Keir Starmer got elected as Labour leader under false […]
by Philip Hall Richmond Park is not far away from us. It’s easy to reach it and to […]
Someone I know. Someone you know. The quintessence of moral failure. by Philip Hall The cast system is […]
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? By Phil Hall The British Disease is passive aggression. It is class hatred […]
By Phil Hall Covid-19 arrives, We sit at home for a long while. The cities empty, the air […]
By Phil Hall In China the barefoot doctors believed in prevention rather than cure. So how can we […]
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