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Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Andrew Morton

11 August 2016

10:01 PM

11 August 2016

10:01 PM

Looking forward to English schools abandoning Shelley for Verlaine, Shakespeare for Goethe and Dickens for Zola.

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