Issues

Went to my German class y'day and realised I had made a terrible mistake. The class was discussing the book it had been reading for the ...

Bong Jaw

The English examination boards have decided that modern language A-levels should no longer include the study of literary texts - students wi...

bangs and whimpers

My language school kindly agreed to let me postpone my February language course to March. I had written to my teacher saying I would like to...

rooster

Several months ago I agreed to be a judge in the Rooster , a literary competition on the Morning News. The competition is set up as a knock...

Philosofa

I go into the cafe at Möbel Hübner, order a latte, open Adorno's Minima Moralia: Was einmal den Philosophen Leben hieß, ist zur Sphäre d...

time out

I got an e-mail from my sister yesterday saying my father had died at 3am that morning at the hospice, so am on my way back to Florida. I m...

fixes

I spent the weekend on an intensive course in CSS at the Volkhochschule in Alt-Mariendorf. Given a choice I would rather not have learnt CS...