The weaponisation of English language education: defunding and gatekeeping When I took part in a recent panel discussion, I remarked that I seem to have spent half my life lately responding to consultations about retrenching and weaponising ESOL.

Drawing together the bin fire that is Greater Lincolnshire’s defunding of #ESOL with a few wider reflections on the weaponisation of #LanguageEducation by the British government and others.

#NewBlogPost #AdultEducation #LanguageIsPolitical #LoveESOL💚💛

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Funny how ‘terror’ is a word reserved for the powerless.
When Palestinians disarmed in 1982, they were massacred — but the world didn’t call that terror. Language bends toward power, not truth. #HistoryReceipts #LanguageIsPolitical

As I move between languages with growing earnestness, I hope to share—even if not often—what it means to carry another writer’s voice: its silences, its sharp edges, its weight.

#LanguageIsPolitical
#BetweenLanguages
#TranslatedLives