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...course, my thesis has obvious limitations, including a very narrow sample. More expansive research will be needed not only to highlight diversity in deaf discourse but to also close the anecdotal gap between Islam and disability. I look forward to expanding on my honours thesis and conducting further research to meet these research desiderata. At the moment, I am working...

...opened up with Surprise Surprise (a mawkish vehicle specialising in family reunions which Victoria Wood memorably skewered in her satirical drama Pat and Margaret) and Blind Date, the win-a-person dating gameshow which could justifiably be called the defining ITV programme of its decade. Unsurprisingly it was not short of critics. In a memorably affronted appearance on...

...open window, habited as a prize-fighter when he enters the ring. "You will take cold," I exclaimed. "Where is your shirt?" "I have not a shirt —my shirts are unwashed." "But why not tell the servant to send them to the laundress?" "Ah ! how could I presume to do that in Mrs. Knight's absence?" One more illustration of the eccentricity of De Quincey. I had been to...