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Anaphora hot. Anaphora cold. Politicians’ rhetoric sounds tired and old (Mind your language, 21 April 2015)
The consequences of overestimating our own abilities can be grave.
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A bullying, interfering waster: how politics gave the state a bad name (The Guardian 16/4/2015)
Personification can help us make sense of the world, but Margaret Thatcher and her successors have used it to turn the helping hand of society into an outstretched leg
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The war of the words How Republicans and Democrats use language. The Economist 12/7/3013
“POLITICAL language”, wrote George Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”