Witches are hardly political figures, but their name and likeliness are used in Dutch political discourse, for example in the hashtag #hexit. So, what actually is the discursive function of witches is in Dutch political discourse?
Scholarly articles written in English about populism often forget linguistic and discursive diversity. Drawing from a monolingual tradition, they tend to overlook linguistic and discursive diversity in the political processes they study.
A series of bizarre tweets ruined a Twitterstorm in favor of the president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri. Either a bot campaign which went wrong, or a 2.0 dirty campaign strategy?
The bulletproof glass wall to be built around the Eiffel Tower should not be dismissed as an embellishment. As a security device, it comes with the risk of sacrificing civil liberties in urban space.
