Dr. Punc.
@drpunc.bsky.social
father, linguist, language teacher, cyclist, music lover, pacifist, but who needs labels? I no longer post on X
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Activist group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation https://aje.news/e2afqs
February 19, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Activist group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation https://aje.news/e2afqs
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Road to the next financial crash.
Regulators fret about banks’ rising use of credit risk transfers.
Barclays and Raiffeisen Bank International are among the lenders using fast-growing technique to transfer credit risk and cut capital requirements.
Deregulation encourages games.
archive.ph/hhz45
Regulators fret about banks’ rising use of credit risk transfers.
Barclays and Raiffeisen Bank International are among the lenders using fast-growing technique to transfer credit risk and cut capital requirements.
Deregulation encourages games.
archive.ph/hhz45
Global regulators fret about banks’ rising use of credit risk transfers
Barclays among biggest users of transactions that pose new dangers for financial system
www.ft.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Road to the next financial crash.
Regulators fret about banks’ rising use of credit risk transfers.
Barclays and Raiffeisen Bank International are among the lenders using fast-growing technique to transfer credit risk and cut capital requirements.
Deregulation encourages games.
archive.ph/hhz45
Regulators fret about banks’ rising use of credit risk transfers.
Barclays and Raiffeisen Bank International are among the lenders using fast-growing technique to transfer credit risk and cut capital requirements.
Deregulation encourages games.
archive.ph/hhz45
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The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours.
It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly.
See TrumpActionTracker.info
It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly.
See TrumpActionTracker.info
October 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours.
It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly.
See TrumpActionTracker.info
It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly.
See TrumpActionTracker.info
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Gaza is a language issue at heart. A key issue for the reluctant discipline of Applied Linguistics whose broken premise is about the use and abuse of language in the 'real world'.
Tribute to Gaza, humanity's eternal heartbreak
Tribute to Gaza, humanity's eternal heartbreak
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Gaza is a language issue at heart. A key issue for the reluctant discipline of Applied Linguistics whose broken premise is about the use and abuse of language in the 'real world'.
Tribute to Gaza, humanity's eternal heartbreak
Tribute to Gaza, humanity's eternal heartbreak
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We invite you again to this urgent yet daunting work which introduces a scholarship of heartbreak through stunned languaging.
The most read piece in Language & Intercultural Communication.
A beginning, a trouble.
A call, a response.
A rethinking
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The most read piece in Language & Intercultural Communication.
A beginning, a trouble.
A call, a response.
A rethinking
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hospicing Gaza ( غزة ): stunned languaging as poetic cries for a heartbreaking scholarship
The article explores the notion of stunned languaging in the construction of poetic cries as a genre of grief in times of unspeakability while witnessing the online streaming of the Gaza Genocide. ...
www.tandfonline.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:33 AM
We invite you again to this urgent yet daunting work which introduces a scholarship of heartbreak through stunned languaging.
The most read piece in Language & Intercultural Communication.
A beginning, a trouble.
A call, a response.
A rethinking
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The most read piece in Language & Intercultural Communication.
A beginning, a trouble.
A call, a response.
A rethinking
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Filton24 defendants, members of Palestine Action, found not guilty as prosecutors fail to provide evidence.
Pro-Palestine activists acquitted of burglary at Israeli arms site in UK
Filton24 defendants, members of Palestine Action, found not guilty as prosecutors fail to provide evidence.
www.aljazeera.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Filton24 defendants, members of Palestine Action, found not guilty as prosecutors fail to provide evidence.
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The era of two-party politics is over.
Under First Past the Post, this means:
❌ MPs most constituents didn't vote for
❌ Single-party governments that most of the country never wanted
@appgfairelections.bsky.social Chair @alexsobel.co.uk is right: this is not a way to run a democracy.
Under First Past the Post, this means:
❌ MPs most constituents didn't vote for
❌ Single-party governments that most of the country never wanted
@appgfairelections.bsky.social Chair @alexsobel.co.uk is right: this is not a way to run a democracy.
February 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
The era of two-party politics is over.
Under First Past the Post, this means:
❌ MPs most constituents didn't vote for
❌ Single-party governments that most of the country never wanted
@appgfairelections.bsky.social Chair @alexsobel.co.uk is right: this is not a way to run a democracy.
Under First Past the Post, this means:
❌ MPs most constituents didn't vote for
❌ Single-party governments that most of the country never wanted
@appgfairelections.bsky.social Chair @alexsobel.co.uk is right: this is not a way to run a democracy.
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The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!
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The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following “concerns” by a UK-based Israeli advocacy group.
Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-bri...
Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-bri...
February 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following “concerns” by a UK-based Israeli advocacy group.
Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-bri...
Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-bri...
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The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
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Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
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MUST READ:
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
MUST READ:
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...
actionnetwork.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
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🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
50 leading academics, former senior public officials and politics, law and policy experts warn about the risks of First Past the Post.
Letter in @politicshome.bsky.social today 👇
50 leading academics, former senior public officials and politics, law and policy experts warn about the risks of First Past the Post.
Letter in @politicshome.bsky.social today 👇
Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...
www.politicshome.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:46 AM
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
50 leading academics, former senior public officials and politics, law and policy experts warn about the risks of First Past the Post.
Letter in @politicshome.bsky.social today 👇
50 leading academics, former senior public officials and politics, law and policy experts warn about the risks of First Past the Post.
Letter in @politicshome.bsky.social today 👇
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So the Palestine Action ban has been ruled unlawful by the UK courts.
The government knew this would be the case at the time but they were willing to go against the law in an attempt to deny people their human rights.
All to support a genocidal regime who gives them money.
The government knew this would be the case at the time but they were willing to go against the law in an attempt to deny people their human rights.
All to support a genocidal regime who gives them money.
February 13, 2026 at 10:21 AM
So the Palestine Action ban has been ruled unlawful by the UK courts.
The government knew this would be the case at the time but they were willing to go against the law in an attempt to deny people their human rights.
All to support a genocidal regime who gives them money.
The government knew this would be the case at the time but they were willing to go against the law in an attempt to deny people their human rights.
All to support a genocidal regime who gives them money.
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Our current voting system leads to:
🐎 narrative of two horse races
😨 fear tactics don’t vote for this or you’ll get that
🗳️ gaming the system with tactical advice
I’m elected to @londonassembly.bsky.social
We’ve had proportional voting for 25 AMs to represent Londoners for 25 years. It works.
🐎 narrative of two horse races
😨 fear tactics don’t vote for this or you’ll get that
🗳️ gaming the system with tactical advice
I’m elected to @londonassembly.bsky.social
We’ve had proportional voting for 25 AMs to represent Londoners for 25 years. It works.
🚨 Over 50 leading academics have sounded the alarm on the UK's voting system
⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before
🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust
⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before
🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust
Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...
www.politicshome.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Our current voting system leads to:
🐎 narrative of two horse races
😨 fear tactics don’t vote for this or you’ll get that
🗳️ gaming the system with tactical advice
I’m elected to @londonassembly.bsky.social
We’ve had proportional voting for 25 AMs to represent Londoners for 25 years. It works.
🐎 narrative of two horse races
😨 fear tactics don’t vote for this or you’ll get that
🗳️ gaming the system with tactical advice
I’m elected to @londonassembly.bsky.social
We’ve had proportional voting for 25 AMs to represent Londoners for 25 years. It works.
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“An antitode to the loneliness of the unhomed” This is how @cnn.com @camanpour.bsky.social described Nation of Strangers. If you missed my conversation with Amanpour here’s the link. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/t...
An antidote to loneliness for the ‘un-homed’: Ece Temelkuran on her new book | CNN
Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran speaks to Christiane Amanpour about the rise of authoritarianism and her new book “Nation of Strangers”.
www.cnn.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:03 AM
“An antitode to the loneliness of the unhomed” This is how @cnn.com @camanpour.bsky.social described Nation of Strangers. If you missed my conversation with Amanpour here’s the link. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
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AU calls for end to ‘extermination’ of Palestinians, decries African wars https://aje.news/52drba
February 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
AU calls for end to ‘extermination’ of Palestinians, decries African wars https://aje.news/52drba
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/supermarkets/
Please sign
#StopGazaGenocide
Don't support settlements
Boycott Israeli products or be complicit in war crimes. Yes, it's that simple
Support @bdsmovement.bsky.social @pacbi.bsky.social
Please sign
#StopGazaGenocide
Don't support settlements
Boycott Israeli products or be complicit in war crimes. Yes, it's that simple
Support @bdsmovement.bsky.social @pacbi.bsky.social
PETITION: Supermarkets must stop stocking Israeli produce
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
February 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/supermarkets/
Please sign
#StopGazaGenocide
Don't support settlements
Boycott Israeli products or be complicit in war crimes. Yes, it's that simple
Support @bdsmovement.bsky.social @pacbi.bsky.social
Please sign
#StopGazaGenocide
Don't support settlements
Boycott Israeli products or be complicit in war crimes. Yes, it's that simple
Support @bdsmovement.bsky.social @pacbi.bsky.social
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ICU patients’ lives at risk in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital amid Israel’s war https://aje.news/iscbhp
February 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
ICU patients’ lives at risk in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital amid Israel’s war https://aje.news/iscbhp
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Together with cross-party Parliamentarians I have written to the Home Secretary calling on her to accept today's ruling on Palestine Action.
Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.
Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.
February 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Together with cross-party Parliamentarians I have written to the Home Secretary calling on her to accept today's ruling on Palestine Action.
Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.
Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.
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So-called AI - not up in "the cloud", but very much down to earth and causing massive damage to #PublicHealth and environmental damage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
So-called AI - not up in "the cloud", but very much down to earth and causing massive damage to #PublicHealth and environmental damage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huda Ammori celebrates 'victory for Palestine' as top court rules proscription as a 'terror' organisation was unlawful https://aje.news/u2w8io
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Huda Ammori celebrates 'victory for Palestine' as top court rules proscription as a 'terror' organisation was unlawful https://aje.news/u2w8io
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.