While others ponder the serious implications of the London mayoral election, I am preoccupied with a different question: what voter ID did Count Binface use?

Earlier today the Home Secretary posted a video of people seeking safety being removed from their homes and driven to detention.

Videoing and publishing such content is extremely disturbing.

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I've been sitting on this for a while, but it's time 🥁🥁🥁

Language as Statecraft is with RoutledgeLinguistics - out July 15th! The book began as an inquiry into Rwanda's recent transition from French to English. It became a story about statecraft, social class, and global English.🧵

🇬🇧 The Garrick Club controversy has brought some old ideas about #language & gender back into the spotlight-- Debbie Cameron has a timely reminder of what's wrong with them
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I see we're still meant to feel good about a powerful, older, married man having sex with a junior employee: how nice he got 'a little sunshine at sunset'. Sorry, gives me the ick.
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ICYMI: language and the Garrick Club wp.me/p6cBF3-6uc

New on Language: a feminist guide: the Garrick Club controversy has brought some old ideas about language and gender back into the spotlight--so, time for a reminder of what's wrong with them
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New on Language: a feminist guide: the Garrick Club controversy has brought some old ideas about language and gender back into the spotlight--so, time for a reminder of what's wrong with them
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Not exactly news, but I love the pic. Is 'heterosexual despair' a category on stock photo sites?

VG blog by linguist Debbie Cameron on why the ‘I’m asking for it’ ad campaign for ‘affirmative’ sexual consent was bound to backfire. She examines research into why ‘Just say no’ can be problematic - even dangerous, and how just changing language can’t end rape or myths about it.

ICYMI: affirmative consent: why it's not just the campaign slogan we might have language related questions about
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Alexander Fox Clarissa approves.

Exactly this. Already half the content I see on FB is obviously written by AI. Who asked for that?

✋ 'It’s extremely rare for English-speakers to decline any kind of invitation or proposition by just saying no'
Asking for it: #language and affirmative consent
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by Debbie Cameron