Chauvin?
I’m devoting some time today returning to my academic roots, considering words and language, with the focus on French of course. Everything I’m hearing and reading on my news channels […]
Category Archives: europe
In it for others.
I had so many thoughts about a blog post to publish before the election – so many reasons I wanted to spell out for why I would be voting Labour. […]
Community confusion.
Tonight my family will watch the EUROVISION song contest final as we have done for many years. We will enjoy games and taste flavours from all over Europe. I remember […]
A day for reflecting.
Today is a national day of reflection . I have to admit that this seems to be muddied by some of the many awful things going on at the moment […]
You’ll miss them when they are gone
A reflective post and a warning for 2019. A line from Luhrmann’s song will always remind me of 2018: “be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone” […]
An accident of birth.
Many years ago, in my first year of secondary school in Leamington Spa I recited a poem in front of my English class. Our teacher had asked us to choose […]
More from #loveEU
535 linguists in UK support a #remain vote https://t.co/RFT98pibRx #loveEU — UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social (@UCFLangs) June 21, 2016 #loveEU #StrongerIn UK 6% of European Commission civil servants,12% of population; cos lack […]
#loveEU
Is there a hashtag for why the EU is great? And if not, what should it be? #LoveEU? — Rebecca L. Needes 🇪🇺 (@RhetoricAlley) May 17, 2016 We have a […]
Celebrating Eurovision: #loveEU
The EU, what's it all about? https://t.co/RhO7ZCargH # #loveEU https://t.co/MPxWVSIn5H — UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social (@UCFLangs) May 12, 2016 Let's have your photos for #hugabrit campaign so we can share the love […]
On ownership and stewardship.
Image: NASA via wikimedia A recent trailer for a BBC programme about our planet included a soundbite which struck me so much I wrote it down: “This is our home […]
Espace Sisyphe 