A Quote by Christopher Wood
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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