Seeking closure from the self-help lexicon

Totalitarian-style language is creeping westwards

There’s a deadening logic to the anti-language of art criticism

Ours is a uniquely demilitarised society. War and service are remote from everyday civilian experience. Perhaps in consequence, our language abounds in the crassest military metaphors. Take for...

Edward Skidelsky on a word that has gone from the sublime to the shapeless

Edward Skidelsky exposes abuses of language

Whenever a costly and useless bureaucratic reform is proposed, it is said to be “in the interests of transparency.” Sometimes the word “accountability” is added, or—for extra...

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The hollowness of human capital