tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post375165078904447884..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Go for it, Scotland!Tony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-35491457369314375142014-09-19T02:20:01.774-07:002014-09-19T02:20:01.774-07:00Referendum results now out, and it is indeed, as I...Referendum results now out, and it is indeed, as I feared in my Twitter feed yesterday (borrowing Samuel Beckett's phrase), the "screaming silence of no's knife in yes's wound".Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-82083554407616980822014-09-18T12:48:38.527-07:002014-09-18T12:48:38.527-07:00Alex "The Lying Scotsman" Salmond = you ...Alex "The Lying Scotsman" Salmond = you must be joking! It's TOO LATE the noo? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-10001466983602947492014-09-17T13:32:51.773-07:002014-09-17T13:32:51.773-07:00Yes I have decided a 'yes' vote would be a...Yes I have decided a 'yes' vote would be a good idea, having previously been a committed unionist-perhaps the result of subliminal messages from this blog! And a final thought on the above- unless there is a challenge to prevailing ideas that reaches the majority of people- as opposed to just esoteric and very small organisations and societies, absolutely nothing will change. The means has to be thought about as well as the ideas themselves.Margaretnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-6309833828772844982014-09-17T12:06:52.417-07:002014-09-17T12:06:52.417-07:00Thanks for this, Margaret. University extra-mural...Thanks for this, Margaret. University extra-mural work has been very much squeezed in recent years, but individual academics are still doing what they can on that front. I'd like to see the William Morris Society move decisively towards contemporary issues, rather than historical scholarship on Morris and his late-Victorian context. Only a few hours left till the Scotland independence vote - touch wood!Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-65288784556423771832014-09-16T11:15:07.569-07:002014-09-16T11:15:07.569-07:00I do agree that England too needs a boost of ideas...I do agree that England too needs a boost of ideas but the question is, by what conduit? We live in an age of increasing connectivity re.internet etc. but people evidently aren’t using them to seek out other ways of doing things /thinking in sufficient numbers. Maybe there is a role for universities to open up to those who have never had access to higher education by doing some free public lectures which some have done from time to time. And what about lecturers, whether active or retired going out to other venues such as community centres to create debate?Margaretnoreply@blogger.com