Language Matters
Total 6 Posts
How those who want to divide us use language to stoke violence
6 min read
Language can provoke violence between groups, especially when people paint others as threats.
Suella Braverman’s colour-coded stance... all red, white and blue
4 min read
Suella Braverman’s contentious declaration that southern England is facing an “invasion” of illegal immigrants, one of the oldest othering tropes in the book, was rightly met with a barrage of criticism this week. Rashmee Roshan Lall explains why.
Misjudgement now could cost the Conservatives dear at the next general election
5 min read
Rishi Sunak is more authentic and emotional, and Liz Truss more analytical, according to computerised text analysis of a recent hustings.
What Boris Johnson said in his bitter resignation speech and what he really meant.
5 min read
Boris Johnson breaks from his party in a bitter resignation speech in which there is no sense of taking responsibility and no sense of apology.
‘Them’s the breaks’: Boris adopts an American accent.
2 min read
To defy his moment of humiliation, Eton-educated Boris Johnson used a surprising American slang in his resignation speech.
Why we must talk about ‘protections’ being lifted, not ‘restrictions’.
2 min read
“Time to remove all protective measures” is a lot harder to sell than “Time to remove all restrictions”, but it is the truth millions of people are experiencing every day. Language matters, a health expert explains.