When I was at school, we used to play a game in English whereby we each had an obscure word that we had to get into compositions as often as possible without th

When I was at school, we used to play a game in English whereby we each had an obscure word that we had to get into compositions as often as possible without the teacher spotting it. The record, if I recall correctly, was something like 6 mentions of chiaroscuro. I sometimes feel that Guardian political journalists aren't paid by the word but using some form of buzzword bingo similar to the game we played. So the more times they get terms like 1%, neo-liberal, progressive etc the more they make. Polly Toynbee is definitely the master at that but Chakrabortty is pretty good too.