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Just a quick note on the Conservatives’ latest election poster. It’s not that it’s negative: I’m fine with negative campaigning, and I think the Tories, having been in opposition for a long time now, have every right to score points off the incumbent administration’s record.

I’ve been reading a fair bit of radical pedagogy (Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux etc) of late and seeing the word “emancipation” so many times that it started sticking out of the page and looking wrong. Then I read something in, of all places, Huddleston & Pullum that I think made sense of it for me.