Sounds very appetising!

Daytime cinema is a particular delight - feels like bunking off work at first! We’re regulars at the Silver Screening - free tea and biscuits, I should say so.

You’ll love it! And you never know what new stuff - and people! - will come into your life, as I have discovered. Enjoy! And by the way - you did a great job at the OU!

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Excellent piece by @jonathanliew.bsky.social on this in @theguardian.com today. As ever, he nails it: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exactly! I also find it odd that people like Badenoch say this is antisemitic because it prevents Jews from attending, assuming Villa has no Jewish fans and all Jews would support Maccabi. Isn’t equating all Jews as fans of an Israeli team antisemitic by that logic? Such hypocrisy and opportunism.

Was at a #LedbyDonkeys #Guardian event last night and reminded by the set how much their interventions rely on appropriating signifiers from the #LinguisticLandscape like HiViz jackets, signage, and formulaic language to evade barriers like security guards and police to get their massage through. 👍👏

A different use of the flag at today’s #StandUpToRacism rally in London. I trust this is a biblical reference rather than a nod to the rather dodgy 1970s sitcom of that name. #LinguisticLandscapes

A massive thank you to the #LL16 team for such a wonderful conference. Today’s outing to the Zollverein - the former coal mine turned museum and park - could not have been more appropriate and excellent fun! Evelyn, that Applied Swinguistics group and conference needs setting up now!

A striking difference is that climate sceptics don’t seem to respond to climate activist stickers but in NYC the two sides ‘stick’ over it alongside one another - a debate of sorts.
Now the right have targeted the climate as ‘woke’, will this change? #LL16

2 gr8 talks on stickers a@ #LL16 yesterday: Mellie Gonçalves on their use in the climate context both as protest and adverts, the QR code now a bridge to the online ‘bigger’ story. Ditto with Elana Shohamy on the sticker ‘war’ in NYC on the Gaza crisis.

A striking difference is that climate sceptics don’t seem to respond to climate activist stickers but in NYC the two sides ‘stick’ over it alongside one another - a debate of sorts.
Now the right have targeted the climate as ‘woke’, will this change? #LL16

2 gr8 talks on stickers a@ #LL16 yesterday: Mellie Gonçalves on their use in the climate context both as protest and adverts, the QR code now a bridge to the online ‘bigger’ story. Ditto with Elana Shohamy on the sticker ‘war’ in NYC on the Gaza crisis.

A wonderful keynote from Jackie Jia Lou reminding us - and even better modelling for us - that bringing our creativity (Poesie) to our research (Theoria) is not a paradigm shift, but a paradigm extension. #LL16

Combining my twin passions of football and semiotics, a great article from Jonathan Liew about the use of the English Cross of St George flag, sport and politics. And bang on topic at this conference on Linguistic Landscapes!. #LL16 #JonathanLiew

Channeling my inner Munch last night ahead of giving a talk at #LL16 this morning! God knows what I’d be like if this wasn’t the most friendly gathering!

Maybe he will remember that there is a left to Reform’s right now that Zach Polanski is leading the Greens.

Taking a break at #LL16 to take a look at Essen Uni’s linguistic landscape. This seems very on-topic for a conference on ‘Collapse and Transformation’ (You can do it’.) Whether I’d look to religion for transformation rather than the library nearby is less obvious. And why express hope in English?!

Mairead Moriarty at #LL16 on the Seascape: ‘We need to move beyond the Anthropocene and think like a planet.’ Brilliantly original plenary focused on engaging in a multisensory way with sea(scape), ‘drifting’ to new understandings, leading to activism.

Hello Christian! Just discovered you here. On my way to Essen for a Linguistic Landscapes conference, playing Kraftwerk as I travel from Brussels to Köln and thought of you / neon lights, shimmering neon lights. Hope all’s well!

On the Eurostar to Brussels heading to Essen via Cologne for the always excellent Linguistic Landscapes Workshop, and wishing all my fellow travellers a bon voyage! And big thanks to the organisers for making the preparations so hassle-free and welcoming! Bis bald! #LL16

‘The Triumph of Art’ procession and fayre, bringing new and old vibes to Trafalgar Square. Hip hop and Morris’s, steel pans and brass band, art, craft and joy from all over the land. All brought together by #JeremyDeller, a charming man, a prodigious feller.’

Another great act of not just telling but viscerally showing truth to power from Led by Donkeys.

Another great intervention - a truth that's been staring us all in the face for ages now shoved in the face of the Labour machine that seems wilfully blind to the reality.

A bilingual sign by some steps leading down to Lake Constance. It struck me as interesting that the German tells you what the danger is (slipping), but not the potential cause, the English tells you what might cause a problem, but leaves you to infer what the danger is. #LinguisticLandscapes

Always good to hear from #NeilMercer.

A case of the ‘world is too much with us’?

Well, it was a slightly flippant neologism, but I was thinking about having looked in to the text to explore its textual meaning, looking out into the world to see how what it tells us about the contexts it takes a place in, so yes, implications and implicatures for the text world and world world.

A very interesting combination of the watermelon, symbol of Palestine, and Liverpool Football Club’s mantra ‘You’ll never walk alone’. Solidarity in the shared struggle for justice.

The word ‘outsight’ even less - maybe because I just made it up! But I think it’s also an important part of reading, especially in today’s conflicted contexts.