1. First up today, The Place of English, Tony Capstick & Harry Kuchah Kuchah’s discussion for TeachingEnglish https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teacher-educator/place-english

How can teacher educators help teachers to think through and make sense of questions about the place of (varieties of) English in relation to other languages? Questions of correctness and variety choices and ownership of English; questions around native speaker/anglonormative teacher language proficiency; questions around the ‘English only classroom’, multilingual approaches and linguistic diversity; questions about the value, benefit and practice of English as the language of teaching and learning.

2. The poets shortlisted for this year’s T S Eliot Prize will all eventually be found each reading three of their poems and talking about their work here https://www.youtube.com/@TSEliotprizeYT/videos Four out of six so far: Raymond Antrobus, Hannah Copley, Helen Farish & Peter Gizzi.

3. Tim Harford’s new podcast, Cautionary Tales is fun https://timharford.com/etc/more-or-less/

Together (says Tim) we weave stories of human error, of tragic catastrophes and hilarious fiascos. Oil tankers crash in broad daylight, vital military ideas are carelessly given away to the Nazis, and a shouty man in a uniform pulls off an audacious heist. Alongside the drama, each story has a moral that emerges from psychology, economics, even design. Each story will make you wiser.

4. Here’s the Goethe Institut’s Word! language column – in English! https://www.goethe.de/prj/ger/en/kre/spk.html

Dedicated to language – as a cultural and social phenomenon – (Word!) examines how does language develop, what attitude do authors have towards “their” language, how does language shape a society?

5. And, finally, make what you will of Bubble Pop! https://bubblepop.lol/