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Everyday Economics: The Economics of Language

by Flora Windebank August 24, 2020July 18, 2021

Opinion

Why Words Matter

by Louis Capstick June 25, 2020September 19, 2020

Opinion

Language, coronavirus and an insight into testing

by Anna van Wingerden May 25, 2020July 18, 2021

Why I Refuse to Wear The Red Poppy

Lleucu Haf Dec 5, 2025 4 min read

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

It is the 11th of November again, the date when the guns fell silent in 1918, when an armistice was signed in France marking the…

Telltaylor: By a Lancashire Farm Shop, I Sat Down and Wept

Alicia Taylor Dec 4, 2025 9 min read

An image of the Radcliffe Camera against a sunset sky, with the text 'TELLTAYLOR' written in front.

“I was always a muse, a magician’s trick, bending my own image to enhance his own. He seemed to compliment me only if the words fit…

Do different languages change the way we think?

Sophie Harrison Dec 4, 2025 5 min read

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563), public domain

According to the legend of Babel, the existence of different languages on Earth began as a punishment. Humanity, daring to build its tower skyward, was…

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

Orla Case Dec 3, 2025 6 min read

‘The term depicts a feeling “as infinite as an open accordion, a synthesis of grief, sympathy, remorse, and indefinable longing”, which begs the question –…