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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
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@discodiscourse.bsky.social and Tommaso Milani kicking off the two-day CDS workshop 'Looking back, looking forward' with a talk on affect @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social

The online manosphere poses a real threat to society Our response published today in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Really Excited to Discuss My New Book 'The World White Web' at This Year's Author Meets Critic Session at the British Society of Criminology Conference With the LEGEND that is #NeilChakraborti and also Present My Recent Work on #AI and #Southport. Buzzing to Catch Up With Friends/Colleagues 😍😍

Exeter, pursued by a bear

The normalization of killing Palestinians has been ongoing but this murderous “humanitarianism” is something new. I can’t recall a situation where people seeking aid risk getting shot en masse daily from the people —the Israelis— providing the “aid.”

Strong words from someone who spent five years in notorious prison. “She said her experience in jail had ‘taught her that freedom does not come from bombs and brutality, nor from clever stunts for the cameras.’” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

Having first team players in the squad for an A team tour, as warm up for a first team world cup, doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the game to me.

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

Watching Heston's 'My life with bipolar' and the prosody of the collocates are fascinating. Mania = creativity (+) Depression = inactivity (-)

Nott wanted – Tenconi’s UKIP outed and routed in Nottingham. UKIP's latest march for 'mass deportations' was yet another humiliation for the Nick Tenconi clown show. Read about it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/06/nott...

This. Also, what in the ever living fuck is an AI military start up?

It will also have a chilling long term effect. Members of the proscribed National Action have since been prosecuted for continuing the group in all but name. Easy to predict a similar policy towards members of PA if they continue in Palestinian solidarity orgs

Next bed is now finished too - classic three sisters planting, with sweetcorn, beans and pumpkin

Good haul from the allotment this morning. Purple mange tout, sugar snap peas, broad beans and rocket for my tea

Labour HQ

The Scottish Languages Bill (2025) haes gid throu an PASSED. Scots is noo an official leid ae Scotland, alangside an equal tae Gaelic an English. A muckle thanks tae ilka activist, supporter an spikker fa hiv focht sae hard. 🎉🥳🍾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Author of the highly recommended (by me) book 'The UnJewish State' Pdf available here >> www.marxists.org/subject/jewi...

Hello Bluesky followers, I'm looking to speak to British citizens who have been questioned on arrival in the US since January in relation to their political views, and/or have had their phones, computers, social media accounts or other information examined at the US border

Absolute gibbering nonsense. You can’t only do the best research. You don’t know which research is going to be the best until it’s done. That’s literally what research is.

Please share: Join us at the Winter School in Valencia 2026! We are looking forward to your participation! DiscourseNet Winter School #9 in Valencia - Transformative discourse studies. Social and political struggle in a polarised world! discourseanalysis.net/es/node/1400...

'They're just doing their jobs'

Super excited to share the CFP for the 'Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' conference. Organised by Tash Jenman (Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and myself (Lincoln/OCHJS) this will be held in Oxford 20-21 April 2026. All welcome, please share!

A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one

Goodhart has been a thin-wedge liberal racist for quite some time.

This week’s #CookbookCorner stars the vital Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine by Sami Tamimi. Read more about it, then get his recipe for Crushed Broad Beans with Goat’s Cheese & Preserved Lemon Salsa right here! www.nigella.com/cookbook-cor...

People have been calling me Richard (rather than John; my family name is Richardson) more frequently than usual. It's an odd pattern but perhaps indexes a lack of personal interaction with people, that may need to be addressed.

Very exciting new report from @hopenothate.org.uk. Meet The Basketweavers! This could be the most important far-right network you have never heard of with over a thousand members across the UK, US, and beyond. hopenothate.org.uk/the-basketwe...

No shit.

For those of you who don't know, DMU is currently proposing mass redundancies, with nearly 100 academic staff 'at risk', sadly including me. It is absolutely brutal. Please spread the word about this protest rally happening next week in Leicester and come and support us if you're able. #DefendDMU

Important work by the brilliant Craig & Fiona about misogynistic & homophobic banter online. Contradicts Ofcom's consultancy company that said that most men have the appropriate critical thinking to not believe the manosphere. Maybe consult with academic experts?😉 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"We’re being told that disruptive demonstrations are just 'playing into Trump’s hands' by giving him a pretext for military dictatorship. The regime doesn’t need a pretext" - this zine circulating btw autonomous groups around No Kings & anti-ICE protests thenowtimes.substack.com/p/its-fascis...

This is so fucking outrageous it’s made me so mad I can’t sit still

New achievement unlocked. Matt finally passing the far-right purity test.

@whojewthinkur.bsky.social hi, (I hate the terms 'Muslim world' and 'Islamic world', but...) I thought that you might find this open access book interesting >> books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/...