. 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...
Spin doctor terminology has infected the population faster than the Corona virus itself. This Orwellian process of dumbing down our...
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...
. The first lie about the 'Green New Deal' is that it's new. Those of a certain age and world...
Euphemistic language is often an indicator of denial, avoidance and sublimated shame - it is a way to talk so...
Important world events are tough for The Guardian's 'coverage' factory to deal with - I mean things that actually happen...
So Donald Trump - as befits a total narcissist, found the time while strolling around a golf course to set...
Last year Jaron Lanier gave this interview to Channel 4 News. Its well worth watching and left me feeling uneasy....
“The oligarchs have discovered the formula for persuading the poor to vote for the interests of the very rich” Some...
Now we have all been wondering why Labour lost the election and a friend sent me this video from the...
I am stunned by the overuse and erroneous deployment of the word 'stunning'. Yes I am lying nearly dead in...
It is something I will seek to explain to my son as he gets older - there are three types...
In a secondary school essay a long time ago, I took Coleridge to task about his explanation for the vile...
If only the environment was a super-villain. Populist outrage always needs a human enemy and societal urgency requires something immediate...
The only debate genuinely supportive of a just and sustainable world is the only one you will never hear from...
"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that...
I already know the result of the election with total certainty. No need to look at opinion polls or complex...
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...