Sadly, some MPs are not happy that Freedom of Information actually applies to them. It appears that today’s trendy buzzwords - ‘transparency’ and ‘partnership’ (it seems virtually impossible to write a press release without including at least one of them!) have created administrative problems beyond belief for some of those in government who signed up to these principles in the first place.
Imelda | 9:37am |
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All professions develop their own little bits of jargon. The civil service is no exception. But being insulated from the grubby world of commerce, and populated by high-minded Oxbridge types who’d rather kill their own mothers than split an infinitive, Whitehall’s private language has a euphemistic charm all of its own.
Salieri | 8:52am |
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Readers of our blog in February, will know some of our views this subject. The Open Road CEO, Graham McMillan, has done a podcast on the subject for PR Week which you can have a look at by clicking here.
Coriolanus | 11:25pm |
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The most perceptive book ever written about politics – in many and varied ways – is ‘1984’. One of the cleverest things about it was Orwell’s recognition that ultimately totalitarian regimes would seek to control thought by controlling language: hence the concept of Newspeak, with its ‘thoughtcrimes’ ‘doubleplusungoods’ and ‘unpersons’. Presumably some US graduate student has written a thesis on whether it is actually possible to control people’s minds in this way – let me know if you find one.
Salieri | 12:07am |
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The report on political party funding by Sir Hayden Philips should have been big news. Instead the national newspaper subs, who know a thing or two, parked it on page 94.
Salieri | 12:06am |
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