Everyday Lies

Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”

There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity

Broken windows

If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed

The promises of politicians

We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit

Killed, not “neutralised”

“neutralise”

“Senseless”

Loose talk, as they used to say in the war, costs lives

Working people

The latest innovation of the nomenklatura class and their apparatchik subordinates

The meaning of “indigenous”

The old imperial habit rises again: dividing the world into the natives and us

Equity for all

With all this do-goodery, it is a wonder that the company has time for anything else

Green claims

An envelope more hectoring than election propaganda

“It’s official”

The British have become a nation of mental serfs