@discodiscourse
University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls. Website >> https://johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
wow that was powerful
This is incredibly brave and principled. I can't imagine how hard this must have been.
RIP Martin Durham, a first-rate scholar and a really good person. I had the honour to meet him & publish one of the last chapters he wrote.
note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills
oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, for the far-right, a 'patriotic foreign policy' means following US orders.
NEW ON FIRSTVIEW
"Paths to action: Fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative" by @discodiscourse.bsky.social
#Narrative #NarrativeActionProcesses #ModalTokens #ExtremeRight #Neo-NaziFantasy
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
New #OpenAccess article. This one has been in development for a while, so it is nice to finally see this research published.
'Paths to action: Fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative'. Language in Society doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.
If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.
The story of five women who flee the violent patriarchal structures in search of a feminist utopia.
Oh no! Hope that they have rental gear
Our very own BIAJS Director @bengidley.bsky.social is giving the Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture at @lahri.bsky.social Centre for Jewish Studies on 24th March 5.30pm on 'Is antisemitism rising in the UK?'
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Registration for this year's BAAL Language, Gender and Sexuality event - 'Feeling, Meaning, Doing: Affect in Language, Gender and Sexuality studies' - is now open! This will take place at the University of Southampton, hosted by myself and Lexi Webster, on Friday 10th April. go.soton.ac.uk/hv8
A government of pantomime villains spewing performative cruelty in every breath.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Wow, the illustration on this cover is really saying the quiet bit out loud. And an Arthur Green book too...
Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict
www.ft.com/content/eaee...
*Day Today voice*
Bang after bang after bang after bang
the attack may have been deliberate, perhaps to demoralise/punish the Iranian Navy, since it is a school for their kids www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Even *if* machines could do these jobs better than humans, why would we want them to? If we outsource intellectual curiosity and critical thinking to machines, what is left of the human?
As one of my students frequently tells me, “unbridled convenience rots the soul”
Limor Son Har Melech and her husband Yehuda in their Purim costumes.
Purim costumes:
MK Limor Son Har Melech, deputy speaker of the Knesset and member of Jewish Power (Ben Gvir's party), dressed up as an executioner, to celebrate the death penalty law her party are pushing (with government support, to apply only to Palestinians).
Our friends at Nottingham's Theatre Royal have a week of (mainly free) activities coming up to encourage you to look at and experience the work of William Shakespeare in new ways...
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
Oh lovely, where's that?
Suggesting that this is 'the perfect opportunity for the Israeli regime to compel the U.S. to sacrifice its own interests on behalf of the regime' inverts reality and slides incredibly close to an antisemitic conspiracy theory of Jewish world power.
