NJJ turns his political lens to Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber.  Bloody brilliant!

NJJ's crash course on instant AO5 takes a look at the politics of comedy in Twelfth Night. 

NJJ's crash course on political readings of texts considers the poetry, and politics, of Christina Rossetti. 

NJJ's crash course on political readings kicks off with a Marxist take on Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.  Seriously.

Using the opening seven stanzas of Coleridge's poem as a starter (and continuing his rhyme scheme and meter), some bright and brilliant Year 6 pupils continue Cristabel's journey as she peers around the oak... 

This podcast is on the EDEXCEL IGCSE English literature poem 'Blessing' by Imtiaz Dharker

This podcast is on the EDEXCEL IGCSE English Literature poem 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti

This is a podcast on the EDEXCEL IGCSE English Literature poem 'The Tyger' by William Blake

This is a podcast on the EDEXCEL IGCSE English Literature poem Prayer Before Birth by Louis MacNeice

NJJ reviews the history of heroism in life and literature, and asks the question: are we now living in a post-heroic age?