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George Orwell, in his 1946 essay ‘Politics and the English Language‘, wrote that: “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. [….] Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.” He continued: “Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven outContinue reading “In defense of the the indefensible”