David Blackburn

Toibin on teaching

As a coda to Michael Amherst’s recent piece on the value of creative writing courses, here is Colm Toibin, the new(ish) professor of Creative Writing at Manchester University, talking to Sky Arts’ book show about teaching creative writing. 

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‘Islamophobia’ and the grooming gangs scandal

At PMQs this week, Kemi Badenoch told MPs that Labour’s adoption of the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslim’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’ has inhibited public discussion of rape gangs. She pointed out that, according to this definition, anyone who draws attention to the over-representation of Muslims in the grooming gangs is guilty of Islamophobia.

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