The Neoliberalspeak Dictionary
Over the past forty years or so, neoliberalism has contributed to the impoverishment of our language by the misuse of certain words. The aim of a Neoliberalspeak dictionary is to give some…
Writing From the Left, Changing the Conversation
Over the past forty years or so, neoliberalism has contributed to the impoverishment of our language by the misuse of certain words. The aim of a Neoliberalspeak dictionary is to give some…
This was inspired by George Orwell’s Newspeak. According to Orwell: “No word .. was ideologically neutral. A great many were euphemisms. Such words, for instance, as joycamp (forced-labour camp) or Minipax…
Not long ago I shared someone’s post on Twitter about the untold suffering in Yemen showing a picture of a starving child. I asked why we seem to turn our…
The best quote, that I get more mileage from than I deserve to is given to us by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not…