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Languages are disappearing, and the problem is political

Sophia Smith Galler’s How to Kill a Language introduces the many methods that are used to coerce people into taking up dominant languages at the expense of their own. These include massacres, dispossession, forced relocation, criminalisation and public humiliation, as well as more subtle techniques, like economic pressure and political…

The Conversation · Aug 12

Austerity hurts more than a smack

Letters: when services that support vulnerable families are cut to the bone, it’s no wonder society breaks down

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2024

We stand together on the Middle East crisis, united in grief

Shared humanity unifies us, write leading UK. figures from Islam, Christianity and Judaism

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2024

Don’t know whether to vote for Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer? The choice is easy

We are not ‘all in this together’: there are clear dividing lines between the two leaders

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2023

ChatGPT can tell jokes, even write articles. But only humans can detect its fluent bullshit

It has been hailed as the AI program that could spell the end of search engines, but we should beware putting our trust in a machine

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

Letters: in the UK, the far right works from within

Britain’s two-party system excludes smaller, extreme parties from parliament. But they operate in more insidious ways

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2022

We internalised the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. This horrific attack is what follows

There has been terrible retreat from freedom of expression. We should ponder that as we condemn this outrage, says Jo Glanville, former editor of Index on Censorship

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2022