. Euphemistic language exists to convey sublimated shame dishonestly. The art lies in crafting manipulative language that sounds innocuous, but...
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Tory values and criminal negligence are about to unleash a medieval horror show in British hospitals - and they want...
Quietly posted in the small hours of last night in The Guardian, a devastating article detailed the threat of a...
Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar adopted Churchillian gravitas yesterday to warn about the seriousness of the Coronavirus outbreak and that...
The response of Donald Trump's venal administration to Covid-19 has mirrored and has sometimes been even worse then the delusional...
What is the theme music of the Tory response to the Corona virus? Perhaps the opening few lines of that...
I can't think of a way to describe the mendacious, selfish, callous and wilful stupidity of the Tory response to...
Yes our government is stuffed full of idiot toffs. Yes we have an ongoing medical crisis to which idiot toffs...
On International Women’s Day a former conservative home secretary was abruptly 'no platformed' by students at Oxford University - thirty...
We have built an entire global economy and monetary system on the idea that resources are infinite. This isn't too...
. The first lie about the 'Green New Deal' is that it's new. Those of a certain age and world...
To have any hope of averting or even surviving the looming apocalypse, some entrenched ideas and cultural shibboleths are going...
Euphemistic language is often an indicator of denial, avoidance and sublimated shame - it is a way to talk so...
Before we begin Why does vague euphemistic language surround the looming collapse of civilisation? On the face of it -...
Introduction On psychological defences against reality, my therapist observed simply that 'we all use em and we all need em'...
Keir Starmer - you remember him? The guy who dreamed up that brainiac maniac kamikazee fudge-ball Brexit strategy that delivered...
So Donald Trump - as befits a total narcissist, found the time while strolling around a golf course to set...
Now we have all been wondering why Labour lost the election and a friend sent me this video from the...
In a secondary school essay a long time ago, I took Coleridge to task about his explanation for the vile...
"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that...
Millions of people have been inspired by the young environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Aged 15, she painted her simple sign,...
Picture the scene - at a series of press events and amidst a flurry of tweeted delight from Labour's right...
When the opinionators of The Guardian unite with the Blairite rump in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) to give Jeremy...
Congratulatory cheer abounds as various bodies are declaring a climate emergency. This is not to be decried or belittled -...
The Extinction Rebellion movement is the current flagship of climate change protest. I applaud their well branded PR campaign which conveys...
Will eXtinction Rebellion succeed and somehow avert the onrushing climate apocalypse and planetary ecocide? Should I be on the streets...
Small bands of campaigners on the ecologically sensitive west coast of Ireland are fighting Texan fracking giant Fortress Energy over...
No surprise that Donald Trump hasn't bothered to consult Congress before going to war to support Saudi backed jihadist terrorists...
I shall spare you the latest list of Palestinian dead, their names and the funerals planned for them in the...
Here is how it is done - how fake news is created by The Guardian to smear people who won't...