steepholm

I encounter a lot of weirdly tortured phrasing from students who've been taught about academic register in a very superficial way; contortions to avoid first person pronouns (singular or plural) are particularly common. The ones who can pull it off write like junior Sir Humphries, the ones who can't as if they learned English through a dodgy correspondence course. It's telling because it's the direct result of authoritarian teaching ('it's against the rules to use 'I' in your essay!)

Internment worked so well last time, I can't think why people might have reservations! It seems that Theresa May is going the slightly different, but predictable route of criminalising ideologies rather than actions, which is likely, I fear, to have much the same effect.