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You'll enjoy Gyles Brandreth's speech in Parliament about language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiCuSW3lrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiCuSW3lrE And

You'll enjoy Gyles Brandreth's speech in Parliament about language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiCuSW3lrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiCuSW3lrE And potentially this discussion about the role of language in politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ha-PuJlgi0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ha-PuJlgi0

noir-york 10y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed Gyles' speech! Thanks for sharing
mseebach 10y ago
Or, directly from the mother lode: George Orwell, Politics and the English Language: https://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/ https://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/orwell/ess...
quirkafleeg 10y ago
> You'll enjoy Gyles Brandreth's speech in Parliament about language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiCuSW3lrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiCuSW3lrE LOL Three minutes in, Dennis Skinner: "Have you read Maastricht?"
- abraae 10y ago
  Brilliant.