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Positive Female Role Models in Children’s Literature

Are the words our children and young people hear and read and the connotations of their use really significant to their development of…

8 min readMar 4, 2022

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Another blank page

Yes, here it comes again — so much white. It ought to be innocuous, oughtn’t it? Instead and in spite of its clean and sterile brightness…

2 min readApr 11, 2022

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Another blank page

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A response to a criticism of today’s youth … *

Times have changed, of that there’s no doubt Some facets are better some we’re better without

2 min readNov 25, 2021

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Cartoon: Boy buying a fish asks, “Can I have a plastic bag please?” Shop assistant responds: “It’s in the fish sir.” (Comment on environmenal pollution.)

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Palestine — Ignorance & Misrepresentation

Lies are powerful but cultivating a false understanding doesn’t need them. It is enough to allow the fog of ignorance and skewed…

5 min read1 day ago

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Palestine — Ignorance & Misrepresentation

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So right. One can choose to stay or choose to leave.

Yes, I accept that Medium is a profit-making venture and that it makes its profits from the work of those who contribute. Some of the best…

2 min read5 days ago

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Please help arrest human regression.

Oppressive right-wing ideology seems ominously to be accelerating across the World.

2 min read6 days ago

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Please help arrest human regression.

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STOP THE HYPOCRISY — STOP ISRAEL’S SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT.

(Prompted by my own feelings of horror and an article on Pearls and Irritations…

3 min readMay 12, 2024

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STOP THE HYPOCRISY — STOP ISRAEL’S SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT.

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The very idea of success is false.

The materialist ethos of most modern societies is an atrocious conditioned ethos implanted and encouraged by a system controlled by a few…

2 min readMay 9, 2024

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There are several aspects of your post with which I can agree and/or for which I have sympathy.

There are also unfortunately worded statements showing significant bias.

5 min readMay 7, 2024

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World Gone Wrong

The hypocrisy of western nations that have supported Israel and its continued perfidy has to stop.

4 min readMay 6, 2024

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Roger Hawcroft

Roger Hawcroft

Expat Tyke in Australia. Dismayed & depressed at World conflict/poverty/disadvantage/hatred. Buoyed by music, art, literature, nature, animals & birds.

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