It's not surprising. Reading for pleasure was phased out of schools a long time ago and replaced by "Literacy" and Accelerated Reader where kids are tested on the books they read and have to finish them as fast as they can.
We have a neo-liberal school curriculum in the UK that only sees reading as a function of employment or cultural indoctrination (in the case of the statutory requirement to teach Shakespeare and that no non-UK writers are allowed to be studied at GCSE).
Shakespeare is the ONLY author that has to be taught in schools by government directive. Everything else is at the discretion of exm boards and teachers.
Wonder if Apple are running the numbers and seeing whether pulling out the UK altogether wouldn’t lose them much money.
Are these theoretical "someones" - or actual?
I've been a vegan since around 2000 and keep up with the issues. I've not met anyone in real life or seen anyone online who has these issues. People with ASD can and do change their diets, too (and I speak with direct experience about this).
I was desperate to get my sons into The Phoenix and we subscribed for 2 years until they just piled up. One of them did like Mega Robo Bros and bought a couple of the collections.
All my attempts to indoctrinate my kids into comics have always crashed to earth in a flaming failure. YouTube seems to have them in its thrall.
2000AD – Heat death of the universe. No child has ever mentioned 2000AD.
Ha. Not surprised. 2000AD grew up with its first generation of readers and isn't accessible to kids at all. I'd love to know the sales figues for the ever-increasing kid-friendly "regened" (?) issues and whether anyone except the usual adult readers buy it.
Manga surprises me in terms of its continued appeal to kids. My own kids find anything Japanese "cool" and places like HMV are stuffed full of products based on anime and manga (as well as those hideous plushies!). Brian Hibbs on CBR did an exhaustive look at book sales in US and it seemed to suggest that - unlike US superheroe stuff - anime drives the sales of manga.
Doctor Who – Cold. It's a rare child, always a geek, who has any interest in this particular franchise.
It's not really been on the tv for years and doesn't seem pitched at a modern kids audience. (As a Doctor Who fan from childhood in the 1970s and 1980s, I'm not really sure WHO the new Who is aimed at.) I also wonder if it's always been the odd geeky kid into the show. I recently read a book about ASD in children where an interest in Doctor Who was given as an indicator of being ASD.
It's the first I've ever heard that there are medical reasons to eat meat. People with allergies can cut out the food triggers. All animal farming needs to end. Your local Farmer Jones sprays his fields with animal shit which then gets into the local water just like big-farma.
And if you think that's too crazy an idea, watch some videos about poultry farming to see the horror show that it is. UK calls itself a nation of animal lovers and then treats the mass of animals montrously.
Ofgem hit the bank with the £5.41 million fine after concluding it did not take “sufficient reasonable steps to ensure compliance” with its own policies around UK transparency and integrity rules.
Hmmm. Morgan Stanley's (public) yearly profit is close to $10 billion. We know that the energy companies have been making profits in the billions as well.
They should be fined billions not millions. It's the equivalent of convicting a murderer and punishing them by telling them "Your a naughty naughty boy" before letting them walk free.
Very interesting. I wonder to what extend fans’ ages alter the ratings?
In Doctor Who fandom, whenever the question “Who is your favourite Doctor?” pops up, the majority tend to say the current one. It also seems to be that this is responded to by younger fans/audiences. I wonder if it’s the same with Trek. Because of my age, I’ll ALWAYS prefer classic DW to recent stuff. There’s an element of nostalgia.
My first Trek was TOS and it’s what I think of AS Trek primarily. I wasn’t into TNG at all (because of my age and I’d moved away from stuff like this for a time). DS9 and, particularly, Voyager would rate mire highly as they were on when I was watching TV in the late 90s. I like SNW because it echoes TOS. While I’ll watch other Trek, it doesn’t have the same impact on me.
Who needs rivers and waterways when you have an Olympic-size heated indoor pool and all the bottles of Perrier you could ever dream of?
The people to hold to account are the villains and dupes who keep voting the Tories back in.
As an ex-English teacher I can assure you that’s the case. It changed in the 2016 reforms (when, among other things grades turned into numbers). It’s the same for To Kill a Mockingbird, another much-taught US text.
Some schools use Of Mice and Men as class readers in Year 8 and 9.