14 JUNE 2003, page 26

Mind Your Language

Veronica has been playing Hail to the Thief I won't say non-stop, but as obsessively as one of those South American birds in the zoo that hasn't got a big enough run and keeps......

Language Barriers

Peter Jones says that universities are becoming factories of jargon and illiteracy I , n his essay 'Politics and the English Language' (1946), George Orwell laments the......