Hello all

Fantastic responses from Action for ESOL, NATECLA and ESOL-Research subscribers to the latest humbug from Cameron. Congrats all.

Mark Sebba (Lancaster)has written a blog post about how census statistics are quoted in misleading ways by politicians:

https://literacieslog.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/muslim-women-and-english-cameron-gets-his-figures-wrong/

All the best

James

Dr James Simpson

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School of Education

University of Leeds

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