John E. Richardson
@discodiscourse.bsky.social
University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls. Website >> https://johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
Taking a @yougov.co.uk poll and I've answered these questions at least once before. I don't know who is paying them but I guess they'll keep trying until they get the results that they're happy with.
Meet Joshua Bonehill-Paine, convicted for harassing a Jewish MP, jailed for promoting an “anti-Jewification” rally, but now selected to stand for the Conservative Party in Somerset. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/08/bade...
Badenoch's new model Tory: a nazi criminal who thought Golders Green needed gassing | Searchlight
Convicted for harassing a Jewish MP, jailed for promoting an "anti-Jewification" rally - but now selected to stand for the Conservative Party in S ...
searchlightmagazine.com
He was (quite violently) racist but he made media organisations money, so of course he receives tributes. Fuck him. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
Tributes paid across industry to provocative journalist who died after short illness
theguardian.com
A far-right thug who performed Nazi salutes at a "protect women and children protest" has been exposed as a serial stalker and abuser. www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...
Glasgow protest: Man who made Nazi salutes exposed as serial stalker
Ryan Marshall was pictured making the "sieg heil" gesture at the Unite the Clans rally in Glasgow last Saturday, which resulted in at least 15 arrests
glasgowlive.co.uk
Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
ft.com
The signs of collapsing harvests are coming thick and fast now, but still @andyburnham.bsky.social plans to suck up more oil and gas, pump more CO2 into the atmosphere, and add to the heat, drought, and wildfires that compromise UK food production www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
theguardian.com
"Beyond The Riots: Britain’s Far Right, Online Radicalisation And The Future Of Counter-Extremism" An interview with @willallchorn.bsky.social www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?p=959
My book is now available for preorder on Bloomsbury's website. If you are affiliated with a university that still believes in the humanities, please consider having your university library order a copy. www.bloomsbury.com/us/harriet-d...
Harriet de Onís and the Translation of Latin American Literature
Uncovers the role of Harriet de Onís (1899-1969), Alfred A. Knopf's principal translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature into English, in ushering in the L…
bloomsbury.com
Racist leader. After this ruling, in particular, I feel that media lawyers would not consider that description inaccurate.
Dr William Allchorn@willallchorn.bsky.social · last wk.
This has been a rough week for AI submissions at the journal, but it's also led to some reflection around why I seem to react so strongly to academics using AI to write their papers and make up references for them. 1/9
The AP giving a redemption arc to a known white supremacist should show us all that corporate media cannot be trusted or saved.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.AP Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains her shift on Russia’s war and wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own.
If proof were needed that some sections of Britain’s street far right are running on fumes, Oldham supplied it. Only around 30 people turned out for what was billed as a show of anti-migrant strength through the town centre. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/07/thir...
Thirty losers on a two-minute march: Oldham's far-right no-show | Searchlight
Ashlea Simon stayed away, the local football hoolies couldn't be bothered, and even organiser Billy Howarth looked like he'd rather be anywhere el ...
searchlightmagazine.com
Remembering a legend. The Trent Bridge heritage team will honour the life of Sir Garfield Sobers at tomorrow's game against Leicestershire 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/zdiqnirtnp
I don't think that Richard Osman gets the props he deserves for the vegan cafe names he invents. 'Everything with a Pulse', 'Mad about the Soy' et al
This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.
the new right makes men *undisguiseably* repellent then frames that as women's fault
Happy UK paperback release day to our book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism
theguardian.com
In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
theguardian.com
Really excited for Grok to make the historically accurate version of The Faerie Queen next. Followed by the historically accurate version of Star Wars. variety.com/2026/film/gl...
Elon Musk Says Grok Will Make an AI ‘Odyssey’ Film That Is ‘Historically Accurate’ by the End of the Year
Elon Musk has again waded into Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey, saying Grok will make a historically accurate AI version by the end of the year
variety.com
On the femicide of Hélène Rytmann-Legotien: how Louis #Althusser killed his wife and ‘invented’ #masculinism article by @francesca-b.bsky.social with #PulsEurope voxeurop.eu/en/femicide-...
Home and greeted by a book delivery for another project I'm trying to find time for, this research leave.
Fascinating two days in the archives reading BUF publications. I'd never read the materials they published after the start of WWII; they were like a(n antisemitic) dog with a bone, and it's obvious why many of them were interned.
As this year’s Hundred gets underway, worth remembering this presentation from our #CRN2026 conference which blew away the facade of gender equality surrounding the comp. In the era of new owners, this is the kind of thing to watch / listen out for.
Raf Nicholson@rafnicholson.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur 1st panel at #CRN2026 is on Gender. Two brilliant presentations first up centring on lived experience of female cricketers in franchise comps, including The Hundred. Huge contrast between hype of "equality" & persistent disparities in Georgia Norman's interviews with players. I gasped at this!
![Quote from an interviewee: "At [franchise], the men's team were getting food and we weren't. They were having their dinner cooked for them every night for free and we were going out or getting delivery. There was food in the team room, but it wasn't for us, it was for the men."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qefnz7gxtoazw436ylnafygh/bafkreiattkezimkg4n3g7gghugnatuyxohmvtafa4pmcefrbnfeobpk6we)
Very sad news. May the road rise up to meet him.
The Anfield Wrap @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social · 2w agoEveryone at The Anfield Wrap are deeply saddened to hear of the news that Liverpool Legend Kevin Keegan has passed away at the age of 75. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time. You'll Never Walk Alone.
