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Paul Breen

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Covers:  Politics, Irish affairs, educational issues, sports and finance.
University lecturer, author & Ed Tech designer-somewhere between #LondonIrish writer & Irish writer in London-into #cycling #CAFC & #socialjustice too.
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Michelle Obama speech proves you don't have to blow your own trumpet to be heard

Michelle Obama speech proves you don't have to blow your own trumpet to be heard

The Conversation — Michelle Obama used her last official speech as first lady to talk about education, one of her signature issues - but laden as it was with the subtext of the end of an era, it may in itself be one of her greatest legacies.
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A linguist explains why translators can't understand Trump

A linguist explains why translators can't understand Trump

Business Insider — Dr. Paul Breen, Senior Lecturer in Academic English at the University of Westminster, told Business Insider that Trump "doesn't use multiple clauses in his sentences," which makes it particularly difficult for translators. He went on to say the most difficult job is "decontextualising Trump's use of words which addresses a particular audience."
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Our ability to recognise letters could be hard-wired into our brains

Our ability to recognise letters could be hard-wired into our brains

The Conversation — Back in the 1960s, the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky claimed that the human brain is hardwired with an innate understanding of language. This became known as the Universal Grammar theory, and was offered as an explanation of the speed at which children tend to learn their first language.
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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Changing The Game By Energising The Young And The Disenchanted

How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Changing The Game By Energising The Young And The Disenchanted

HuffPost United Kingdom — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has changed the conversation in American politics. Young, articulate, personable and unafraid to speak her mind or make mistakes along the way, she's becoming a beacon of hope for America's youth. She has already earned a reputation for calling out the corruption going on around her in public office.
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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Changing The Game By Energising The Young And The Disenchanted

How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Changing The Game By Energising The Young And The Disenchanted

HuffPost United Kingdom — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has changed the conversation in American politics. Young, articulate, personable and unafraid to speak her mind or make mistakes along the way, she's becoming a beacon of hope for America's youth. She has already earned a reputation for calling out the corruption going on around her in public office.
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Poppies are a political symbol - both on and off the football pitch

Poppies are a political symbol - both on and off the football pitch

The Conversation — When Canadian military doctor John McCrae sat down to write a poem on the edge of a battlefield in May 1915, he could have had no idea how far the echoes of his words would spread. What he wrote - the now legendary In Flanders Fields - fashioned a symbol of remembrance for his fellow soldiers, felled in war.
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Football's own-goal in struggle for reconciliation in North

Football's own-goal in struggle for reconciliation in North

Irish Times — Twenty years after the signing of the Belfast Agreement, a great deal has changed in Northern Ireland, now a place very much in vogue. Thanks to the success of shows such as Derry Girls and Game of Thrones, people now associate this once-benighted land with comedy, tourism and television.
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Programmes like Derry Girls paint an idealised picture of Catholic education ... for me, the trut...

Programmes like Derry Girls paint an idealised picture of Catholic education ... for me, the trut...

Belfast Telegraph — Schools should be safe spaces, sanctuaries of learning that make sure we grow from children into healthy adults. The memory of them should conjure up thoughts of Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Stephen Hawking, Ada Lovelace and inspirational figures from history, such as the suffragettes.
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Westminster language expert reveals the six language tricks financial fraudsters use

Westminster language expert reveals the six language tricks financial fraudsters use

westminster.ac.uk — Vishing is a growing problem for UK banks and businesses. Recently published figures showed that the UK lost £2 million each day in 2016 to financial fraud. As a consequence, Financial Fraud Action UK have launched a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of this growing phenomenon.
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As a linguist, I can tell you what Trump's first words as president really reveal

As a linguist, I can tell you what Trump's first words as president really reveal

The Independent — Donald Trump climbed onto the American stage yesterday still caught up in a kind of campaign puberty, high on testosterone and ego. The winner, the outsider, the salesman of the grand idea standing triumphant on the side of the people. Short sentences, fragmentation, oppositional language, emotive ideas, and even a touch of bad poetry.
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How The Closed Minds Of The DUP Could Change The Face Of Ireland's History Books And Statues

How The Closed Minds Of The DUP Could Change The Face Of Ireland's History Books And Statues

HuffPost United Kingdom — Arlene Foster's book collection is unlikely to contain very much that is racy, republican or feminist. I doubt you'd find James Baldwin, Brendan Behan, Germaine Greer, Audre Lorde or Oscar Wilde in unholy alliance upon her shelves, or even a great deal of British comedy, music and multiculturalism.
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Write of passage across the water

Write of passage across the water

Irish Times — Emigration has been a feature of my family's history for nearly two hundred years, maybe four or five hundred if you go back down through the Anglicans on my maternal grandmother's side. Descendants of theirs would one day head off on ships bound for Canada and Boston, where they'd build new lives in sun-seared chalk-white houses.
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Paul Breen: One minute I was looking up at Chelsea apartments the next I was pummelled with an im...

Paul Breen: One minute I was looking up at Chelsea apartments the next I was pummelled with an im...

Belfast Telegraph — Everyone who lives outside their own country knows that some day they might get the call they don't want to hear. This is a call like no other - death's cold and unexpected knock on the door of routine. Unlike other visitors this dark figure needs no passport to shift across the boundaries that Irish people inhabit.
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NEWS OF LYRA MCKEE'S DEATH

NEWS OF LYRA MCKEE'S DEATH

Belfast Telegraph — Opinion piece written in the aftermath of the murder of young journalist Lyra McKee.
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Belfast Telegraph: Labour believes Northern Ireland can have its cake and eat it when it comes to...

Belfast Telegraph: Labour believes Northern Ireland can have its cake and eat it when it comes to...

westminster.ac.uk — Dr Paul Breen, who attended the Labour Party's annual conference which took place from 24-27 September in Brighton, witnessed a number of interesting discussions regarding the future of Northern Ireland after Brexit. He wrote: "Brexit dominated discussion in many of the fringe events as a whole at the conference.
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Charlton books for Christmas - CAS Trust

Charlton books for Christmas - CAS Trust

castrust.org — KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY THIS XMAS, WITH CHARLTON BOOKS - Trust member Paul Breen (@CharltonMen) offers some suggestions for Christmas gifts for fans of all ages. THE festive season is almost upon us yet again, coming around faster every year.
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Author Paul Breen: The Charlton Men

Author Paul Breen: The Charlton Men

youtube.com — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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A state of change - Reflections on Northern Irish football | The Football Pink

A state of change - Reflections on Northern Irish football | The Football Pink

footballpink.net — By Paul Breen @CharltonMen - this article first appeared in The Impartial Reporter Newspaper in December 2012 but has never appeared online until now. Once upon a time, when I was a student, I went to see Cliftonville playing Glentoran in a cup final at Windsor Park; one of the dozens that seemed to happen ...
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This Sport is Stupid Anyway

This Sport is Stupid Anyway

footballcollective.org.uk — Attitudes to football within segments of academia by Dr Paul Breen @CharltonMen BACK in 2010, The New York Post enraged football fans with a headline about how this was such a stupid game, after the United States soccer team got knocked out of the World Cup by Ghana.
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An Afternoon on the Edge of England

An Afternoon on the Edge of England

tenpennydreams.com — Last week, I was thrilled to receive an email from author Paul Breen - a Charlton Athletic fan - who was planning to make the trip up to my home town of Middlesbrough to watch the football and, after reading a couple of my blog posts, had decided to spend some time exploring the town.
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Voice of The Valley - an independent Charlton Athletic fanzine - 24/3 The family tree is stronger...

Voice of The Valley - an independent Charlton Athletic fanzine - 24/3 The family tree is stronger...

votvonline.com — by PAUL BREEN (@CharltonMen) We have our differences at Charlton. Most of the country, if not the world, knows that in recent times. Our club has become synonymous with foreign ownership, protest, pink pigs, and foam balls thrown onto the pitch.
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5 ways to avoid being financially scammed this Christmas

5 ways to avoid being financially scammed this Christmas

The i Paper — Consumers should be on their guard this Christmas. Though this may be the season of goodwill, but in the rush of stress and selecting gifts, any one of us can become vulnerable to fraud. The best way to avoid falling victim to online scams, especially those involving banking fraud, is to follow a simple series of steps.
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BBC World News: Dr Paul Breen comments on Brexit and the Irish border issue

BBC World News: Dr Paul Breen comments on Brexit and the Irish border issue

westminster.ac.uk — Commenting on Brexit Secretary David Davis' admission that the Irish border solution may not be finalised until after the UK leaves the EU, Dr Paul Breen said: "I don't agree with the idea that we can wait until the day before or the day after they find a solution because I really see from the British side a lack of engagement in the real issues.
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Irish voice in Britain more important than ever after Brexit

Irish voice in Britain more important than ever after Brexit

Irish Times — On Thursday morning at 7am I voted for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union. I tramped through the driving rain in London to register my support for an ideal of European unity that has never quite been perfect in practice, but is still very much a work in progress.
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