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Someone once tried telling me the Deaf people were fascists. It was an eye opener and it came from a left winger – a woman who was a feminist in fact. Nevertheless does it have any ring of truth – especially when its hearing people who say this? I supposeContinue Reading

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Remember when he said ‘unpresidented?’ That’s Trump of course! Many in the US took the opportunity to distribute a free newspaper which extolled the fact that he had in fact been unpresidented. It was such a brilliant move at the time the campaign had been conducted back in 2019. ItContinue Reading

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On the corner of 35th Street NW and Volta Place NW in Washington D.C. can be found Vawlty Towers. Basil Fawlty wont be spotted there but the ghost of a certain Alexander Graham Bell may well turn up! The former was well known for shouting all over the place andContinue Reading

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A few years ago the famed inventor of the telephone (and of oralism and eugenics and other things) was struck off the patents registers as being the only true inventor of the telephone. The US Congress had decreed that Alexander Graham Bell was not the telephone’s inventor but rather itContinue Reading

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This is about the post-war oralist programme aimed at rearing fully conversant hearing speakers out of Deaf children. How did this special experimental oralist programme of the 1950s and 1960s originate – which few know of. It was a regime which by way of yours truly had clearly been anContinue Reading

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This is a bête noire look at the railways so if you are easily offended please don’t be. That because this is not a subject to enthuse over in terms of the 200th anniversary of the railways. Basically the railways created a lot of problems and there’s no doubt ofContinue Reading