The death of distance?
Long-time favourite of this blog, Daniel Hannan MEP, likes to argue that globalisation is making membership of the EU unnecessary because distance is ceasing to matter. When it comes to […]
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languages
Political language
There is a referendum in Latvia on Saturday on a proposal to make Russian an official language. Around one third of the population have Russian as their first language (compare
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Language is political
Further to the story from Israel, here’s another example of how language takes on a political dimension. A scheme to promote the use of the Irish language has been launched
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Official languages
Letter published in the Jewish Chronicle, 26 August 2011 Geoffrey Alderman’s reference to Norway in his discussion of the proposed new language law in Israel is more relevant than he
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