Sofia Lampropoulou

Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tact The Labour Party can't out-Reform Reform, and if it genuinely wants to choose ‘decency’ over ‘division’, it needs to change tact.

It seems Labour have now learnt the word 'racism', but this is utterly disingenuous given how they are pandering to Reform’s far-right agenda.

✍️ our Stephen Walcott, Head of Policy, on @bigissue.com

True true! Sadly, all the ones I listed are in humanitarian stories about migration in the UK I've researched.

No criminal record, then volunteer, then learn the language and, ideally, bring an Oscar or an Olympic medal. Then we'll accept you - maybe you'll get citizenship...

#OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...

#WordsMatter

i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

TUP has given us access to 25 online copies of our gendered linguistic ideologies paper in UK schools. Feel free to download!
el.utpress.utoronto.ca/ls/click?upn...

That's why! Probably ours will be about 20% on week 8!!!

Seriously? 70% for me - week 1 only though!

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid.
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

At the last 'Approaches to Language, Migration&Identity' conference, I discussed how we can go beyond the positive migrant 'storytelling canon'. Project Armonia is a great initiative supporting displaced people through food/cooking (and not linear storytelling)
projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...

A great article! Thanks for reviving it and sharing!

Absolutely! They know it says racism but popularise it by (re)claiming it says England i.e. the narrative is 'we should separate patriotism from racism (that they are two different things)'. And that's how it becomes successful and normalised. The shocking part is how the government plays dumb :(

‘It kept me going’: halt to refugee reunion scheme in UK shatters hopes Afghan man seeking asylum and permission to bring wife to Britain describes shock at home secretary’s announcement

Family unity is central to recovery, integration, and wellbeing. We stand with @rasvoice.bsky.social in urging the Home Secretary to recognise the human cost of this policy and to reinstate safe, legal, and timely pathways for families to be reunited.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Absolutely!

Family reunion rules to be tightened in asylum cases Yvette Cooper will outline her plans when MPs return to Parliament after the summer break.

UK's family reunion route is already a farce which sees too many people denied ability to reach UK to seek asylum, including children.

Tightening it will only ensure even more, particularly women and children, are denied safety, and more families ripped apart. #r4todau

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Can't wait to read it! Are you presenting it at all in one of your future events? I see there's one in Nottingham in November and I'd like to bring my daughter (year 4) who loves your poems (she was in the Y3 Rosen' class at school last year :)

So good news - in the gloominess of the world

And it is available open access @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Revisiting herstory: from trailblazers and herstory makers to the pitfalls of popular post-feminism We live in a moment where feminism is “done” everywhere we turn—be it online or offline, on billboards or on television, in music or in the press. In this moment, however, we are also experiencing ...

New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're proud to join over 200 organisations to call on Party Leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past.

Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate.

Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“Over the past 20 years or so, immigration demands have shifted from variations of “controlling our borders”//…//to demanding that zero migrants be allowed to enter” Point and important read by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A really good read indeed!

📢Dispatches from Calais today:
As the UK government begins detaining people under its “one in, one out” policy, our Racial Justice researchers are on the ground, speaking with people who could be subject to this inhumane policy next.

What we’re witnessing is fear, uncertainty and cruelty.

Congrats Hannah!

Here's the report written by fellow linguists Maca Julios Costa and Camila Montiel McCann: www.runnymedetrust.org//publication...

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’ Pattern of ‘hostile language’ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says

Excellent report by colleagues at @runnymedetrust.bsky.social on how racism underpins political and media language representations of immigration in the UK and how these, in turn, normalise hostile policies.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Very important work on critique and reflexivity in CDS edited by my lovely Greek colleagues!

Rayner: We must tackle profound impact of migration Deputy PM says ministers must accept ‘real concerns people have’ amid fears of another summer of riots

Or, just spitballing here, the government could address the genuine issues, such as housing issues, cost of living crisis, and confront disinformation spread about immigration to help better inform people, rather than pandering to xenophobia and exacerbating hostile rhetoric and scapegoating.