Exactly! An extremely versatile writer.

looks when you know it spells 'Nowhere' backwards) for his satirical take on a modern utopia. And, yes, he was thinking about robots and AI this early on!

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explain to her why I'm finding this concept so disturbing!

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PS: I do actually hate those advertisements. I finished by urging Robbie to retire with dignity so that he can look back on his career with 'No Regrets' ... 🤪

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disappointed I am to see him selling out in those awful 'Felix' cat-food adverts.

All in the name of creating a model for a GCSE-student demonstrating how to write fluently and economically, and ticking all the boxes in the Self-Assessment Square I gave him two weeks ago.

'Heart of Darkness', try 'The Secret Agent' (1906) - a tale of anarchy and espionage in the London fog.

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for that one, too.

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to be Poet Laureate, preferring the independence he had carefully created (but , I think, at a real cost - to himself and others).

Having taught (and loving) the collection, I'm going to recommend 'The Whitsun Weddings' to you, but that doesn't include the classic, 'This Be The Verse', so head

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constructed it. 

Deep insights. Clear guidance. Everything you need to understand HOW to improve.

Explore the current range for OCR and WJEC A-Level Lit students (including 'Antony & Cleopatra', 'Hamlet', 'Othello', and 'The Tempest'), or mount a raid on the free resources 👉 buff.ly/gT7ZKlA

marked for roughly the price of one hour’s tuition.

But the value you get from your Deep Dive will last much, much longer than sixty minutes ... 


That includes meticulous, colour-coded feedback on your work, a model top-grade response, and a detailed commentary on how I (never, ever, an AI)

It will take 30 minutes, maximum, and it is brilliant.

Fun fact about Swift: he faked his own death so that he could find out what people would say about him ...

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the 'tells' which signal that something's not worth reading any further because a machine did most of the work ...

Back to Jonathan Swift - a satirist who would have plenty to say about our times. If you haven't read his 'Modest Proposal', stop everything you are doing, and go and read it now.

let me know if you liked it!

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