1. This one from the IH World site is a bit of an advert for CELTA – and curiously anonymous – but good reading nonetheless, Dealing with the everyday frustrations of teaching https://www.ihteachenglish.com/blog-post/dealing-everyday-frustrations-teaching

2. Here’s a very readable, comprehensive report on inclusion and diversity, Inclusive Language and Images, by Heather Cairns-Lee and Alexander Fleischmann https://imd.widen.net/s/ftjcmtkzcp/imd_inclusivelanguage_v15-spreads

We live in an increasingly diverse and polarized world. We know that diversity is the spark that fuels new ideas and that inclusion is needed to create organizational cultures where individuals from all walks of life can thrive, but many people are unclear about how to create an inclusive culture and are fearful of saying the wrong thing or choosing the wrong images to represent their organization. Unless we address this conundrum, progress in creating inclusive conversations and communities will remain slow.

PDF below. Thanks to Rob Gibson for this one!

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3. Changing Englishes is an online course for teachers from York St John University based on the fact that “referring to English in the singular—which has always misrepresented its diversity—is no longer adequate”  https://changingenglishes.online/

English, like all languages, is constantly changing. But in these globalising times, it is changing at a faster pace and in a greater number of contexts of use than ever before. Non-native users, including learners and teachers, are the agents of much of this dynamism, bringing to English the rich influences of their local languages and cultural contexts. They are also recrafting English to serve as a lingua franca between users of different first languages. The idea of English as a foreign language, belonging to native speakers only, is rapidly passing.

And thanks to Rachel Wicaksono for this one!

4. A piece for Engelsberg Ideas by Christopher Harding about how British engagement with Indian thought had a profound impact on European literature and philosophy, The British Empire’s Indian odyssey https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-british-empires-indian-odyssey/

5. And, finally and elegiacally, the story of one brave man’s struggle to preserve a vanishing world, itself once part of the British Empire, The Garden of Eden Dries Up: Iraqi Marshlands under Threat https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-garden-of-eden-dries-up-iraqi-marshlands-under-threat-a-ccedbf40-a2cd-4ffd-9384-161e66494b59