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…