Summary
There are certain words in the English language which over the years have been so routinely abused by politicians as to have become practically meaningless, at least in a political context.
It's a phenomenon that was perhaps most memorably caricatured by George Orwell in 1984, in which he tells of a Ministry of Peace devoted to waging war and a Ministry of Truth dedicated to telling lies.See the full content of this document
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We've No Choice in the Matter
But in modern times, perhaps no word has been so badly misused as "radical," which originally meant "at the root of" and now signifies something fundamental or far-reaching.
To most people in the Labour Party, it has tended to mean far- reaching change in a left-w...See the full content of this document
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