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Autistic Children1 comment

Emma Warman wrote 2 months ago: Last night I attended a special themed meeting of the Council’s Education and Children’s Services Sc … more →

Reading Pride 2009

Emma Warman wrote 2 months ago: On Saturday I, along with many of my Conservative colleagues, attended Reading’s Pride event in King … more →

Reading Station Upgrade

Emma Warman wrote 4 months ago: Last week I attended a meeting of the Transport Users’ Forum where the Council’s Head of Transport, … more →

Tags: Transport

European Elections

Emma Warman wrote 5 months ago: I’ve just returned home from the European election count in Reading. Whilst the result for the South … more →

Tags: National Politics

A short sabbatical...

Emma Warman wrote 10 months ago: I know everyone else has been furiously blogging this week about the Council meeting on Tuesday and … more →

Tags: General

Children's Services Update: Resignation1 comment

Emma Warman wrote 10 months ago: I hear that Cllr Ruhemann has announced his resignation as Lead Member for Children’s Services … more →

Failing the Children2 comments

Emma Warman wrote 10 months ago: This week Ofsted published the Joint Area Review (JAR) report on services for children and young peo … more →

Another Reading Tory takes to the blogosphere...

Emma Warman wrote 11 months ago: My friend and fellow Reading councillor, Richard Willis, has just started a blog…. you can fin … more →

Gurkhas

Emma Warman wrote 1 year ago: You may remember a few months back I wrote about our campaign to help the Gurkhas here in Reading. A … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Henley By-Election Result...

Emma Warman wrote 1 year ago: …is in! Another great win for the Conservatives, with our share of the vote increasing. I see … more →

Tags: National Politics, Campaigning, Henley by-election

First full Council meeting

Emma Warman wrote 1 year ago: This is turning out to be a busy week, despite the fact that I am off work. On Monday evening we met … more →

Tags: Council

Press coverage of Gurkha campaign

Emma Warman wrote 1 year ago: Click here for the Chronicle’s take on our campaign: … more →

Tags: Local Press

Listening as Reading12 comments

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: Some more about audiobooks today. I still remember my shock and dismay a couple of years ago when I … more →

Tags: Books, Internet Culture, Literacy, Literature, Orality, Politics, Reading, Reading--Solitude, Audiobooks

Toni Morrison: "Bill Clinton is whiter than I thought"2 comments

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: The literary politics continued today with Toni Morrison’s endorsement of Barack Obama. Previously M … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Politics, writing, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, chuck norris, Cultural criticism, hillary clinton

Miscellany: More Literary Politics, Teleread.org, arbiters of celebrity, Technomyth 101

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: Stephen King, Kingmaker? The literary sweepstakes continue. News reports tell us that Stephen King h … more →

Tags: Reading, Politics, Education, Books, Literature, Blogging, Reading--Solitude, Internet Culture, Barack Obama

Michael Chabon Swings Election for Obama!!!!!

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: Ok, maybe not. Still, Obama has the literary vote all but wrapped up, at least in San Francisco, or … more →

Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Literature, Michael Chabon

Miscellany: Books as Plastic Art; Leslie Fiedler; Clinton’s Campaign Against Hope.

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: Book Sculpture Many thanks to Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading for pointing me toward this r … more →

Tags: Books, Politics, Reading, Barack Obama, books as art, Fairy Tales, hillary clinton, Leslie Fiedler

Barack Obama, Black Lothario?5 comments

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: In the final 24 hour run-up to Hillary Clinton’s victory this evening, seduction was in the air. Lit … more →

Tags: Reading, masculinity, Barack Obama, hillary clinton, Politics, Femininity, Seduction, Rhetoric, puritan

Mitt Romney, Untrustworthy Literary Flip-Flopper

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: With my headline I just thought I’d try out my chops as a writer of currently high level American po … more →

Tags: Reading, Politics, Mitt Romney, Books, L. Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth, Huckleberry Finn


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