Hundreds of Britons have been detained in Thailand on suspicion of attempting to smuggle cannabis to the UK.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal aft...

When racism is detached from history, structure and relations of domination

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.

A Discourse Analysis of "Working People"

Because language matters I write about it. If you think about language, how it can shape opinion, read my articles on substack

Why speech has a price, and why some speakers are made to pay more.

Why political language often works best when it stops sounding political

The encoding/decoding model, and why reception is always a political act

... and Who Gets to Say It

Universal grammar, manufactured consent, and the silence between two projects

Another look at the Cours de Linguistique Générale

Prejudice encoded in rhetoric and sentence structure

How we learn about linguistics with cats

Em-dash: linguistic stigmatisation and sociolinguistic marker

The number of fit notes issued has been rising, with more than 11.2m approved in England last year.

How a 100-page policy document turns migrants into a threat, the state into an instrument, and coercion into common sense

How ideology calls us into being

When words make politics possible, and when propaganda breaks the conditions for meaning

Pardon My French: why the joke works when a French person says it in Britain

Royal Mail are putting profits first and prioritising parcels instead of letters. It means people are missing things like NHS appointments and bills that need paying. Enough is enough, sign the petiti...

A critique from philosophy of language and ethical linguistics

A public sociolinguist who made “language policing” analysable without pretending language debates are harmless

When variation becomes a social meaning, not just a variable.

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...

Language, Power and Justice

Steven Miller at the Charlie Kirk Memorial

Reassessing Linguistic Power, Practice, and Inequality

Challenging Traditional Boundaries in Contemporary Linguistics

Hermeneutics, history, and the shared act of meaning-making in human dialogue.

The Hidden Architect of Modern Grammar

The Linguist's Gaze

Linguistic Typology

Language, thought, and war are unmaking compassion

Pragmatics, Possible Worlds, and the Dynamics of Conversation

Linguistic Analysis of an Apology

Pioneer, Linguist, Ethnographer, Controversial Humanist

Verbal Hygiene and the Euphemism Treadmill

An Ancient Challenge to Modern Semantics

The Debate That Reshaped the Philosophy of Language

How Grammar Rewrote the Human Brain