Language has the power to disarm the concerned citizen | Books | The Guardian
Genious: "Let’s say you want to push through a massive programme of
anti-democratic corporate protection over two continents. It might be a
good idea to festoon your official explanations with tedious-sounding
initialisms, acronyms and euphemistic bromides, and with any luck
concerned citizens will fall asleep before realising what is going on
under their noses."
Anti-TTIP protest, July 2014. Photograph: Kate Nye/Demotix/Corbis
