So have I. A further problem is that Chinese students tend to contribute very little to group or project work. It's because the approach to teaching in China does not encourage independent thinking o… (View Post)

Funny how distinguished WW2 fiction has been delivered through trilogies. As well as Waugh, there's the three volumes from Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time (Valley of Bones, Soldier's Art,… (View Post)

Yeah, right. I must say I don't share Boris's confidence about Trump supporting Ukraine. Buried in BJ's article is this. Is it correct?? Staggering if so. "Remember that in 2008 the ­Eurozone an… (View Post)

With respect, you're too relaxed about Trump. Everything about him - the grandiosity, the lying about everything, appaling personal morality, contempt for the constitution, cult of the leader, ignora… (View Post)

Worth pointing out that for all his personal foibles, and they were legion, Waugh's "Sword of Honour" trilogy is quite possibly the finest fictional account to come out of the Second World … (View Post)