George Orwell claimed in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” that English was in a bad way: common consensus (which he was satirizing) held “that any struggle against the abuse of ...

Unspeak, writer Steven Poole’s term for a phrase or word that contains a whole unspoken political argument, deserves a place in every journalist’s daily vocabulary. Such gems of unspeak, such as ...

At the bottom of Monday’s column, I invited Slate readers to submit the best examples of unspeak they’ve encountered and promised to publish the best of the lot. If you didn’t read the column and have ...

There’s a growing genre of nonfiction that could be called “lefty paranoia about the evil brilliance of the right,” in There’s a growing genre of nonfiction that could be called “lefty paranoia about ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Leaders and spin-doctors thrive on verbal manipulation. But a British writer has had enough of the gobbledegook they spout in their ...

John Quiggin joins the fight against unspeakable acts of persuasive definition The seemingly magical power of words is one of the first and greatest discoveries made by any human being. The ability to ...

According to Steven Poole, we live in an age in which language is being increasingly bled of its proper meaning. At the same time, phrases are constantly passing into circulation whose surface ...