Tim Smith-Laing

Aug 15, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Smith-Laing

The Māori language was threatened by New Zealand's "Native Schools" Credit: Anders Ryman/The Image Bank Try to imagine being the last generation to speak English. Or, worse, being the last person to speak it.

Jul 9, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Smith-Laing

A dedicated cohort advocate for scrapping the English spelling system Here’s a challenge for you: read the following paragraph aloud. Fork the potatoes and work the tomatoes? Hoe the rows now, then mow, and wait to weigh the hay? Plough the rough right through? With this cough, though? The very thought.

Jun 22, 2024 | archive.ph | Tim Smith-Laing |Dominic Blake |Michael Delgado

As Gertrude Stein said more than once, ‘There is no such thing as repetition.’ Her justification was simple enough. It is, on one side, a kind of fundamental law of language and action. Repeat yourself, however so carefully, and the words, the story, the gesture morph in some small way with each recurrence. There is always what Stein called a new ‘insistence’, and every shifting insistence undoes the idea of repetition. But there is also more to it than this.

May 30, 2024 | msn.com | Tim Smith-Laing

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May 29, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Tim Smith-Laing

Photograph of Kafka c. 1906, around the time he obtained his Doctor of Law degree from the Charles University in Prague Credit: The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Like Franz Kafka himself, this is an exhibition with two very different faces.