Frank Monaghan
@franklinguistics.bsky.social
Honorary Associate in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the OU. Interested in all things language - esp. in public spaces - how it is shaped by and shapes society. LFC fans' banners a particular interest! Also green spaces and photography.
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!
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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!
Excellent piece by @jonathanliew.bsky.social on this in @theguardian.com today. As ever, he nails it: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
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October 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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.
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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.
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
Now the right have targeted the climate as ‘woke’, will this change? #LL16
September 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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
Now the right have targeted the climate as ‘woke’, will this change? #LL16
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
Now the right have targeted the climate as ‘woke’, will this change? #LL16
September 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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
Now the right have targeted the climate as ‘woke’, will this change? #LL16
Maybe he will remember that there is a left to Reform’s right now that Zach Polanski is leading the Greens.
September 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Maybe he will remember that there is a left to Reform’s right now that Zach Polanski is leading the Greens.
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!
September 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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!
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.
July 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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 case of the ‘world is too much with us’?
May 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A case of the ‘world is too much with us’?