Politics and the English Language

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'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141393063
Published: January 2013

Number of pages: 32
Width: 111 mm
Height: 182 mm
Depth: 2 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd