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First Draft #38: a newsletter on public language
Management-speak comes to football; Starmer's queasy tic; Britain's "seismic" politics; how to land an opening vignette
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First Draft #37: a newsletter on public language
The perils of AI editing; the power of verbs; a return to viva voce; ‘playing catch-up’; Trump and King Charles; join our course
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First Draft #36: a newsletter on public language
Starmer's favourite word; profanity politics; Orwell; Jenrick's delusions of grandeur; Traitor-itis
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First Draft #35: a newsletter on public language
Trump’s F-bomb; 7/7 jargon lesson; "engaging stakeholders"; the struggle to sound human; Bayeux Tapestry; The Draft is hiring
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First Draft #34: a newsletter on public language
The rhetoric of free trade; levers; Mrs Dalloway; Conclave
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First Draft #33: a newsletter on public language
Populist truths; Kipling, the King and Christmas; what to do with milestones; Welby bombs
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First Draft #32: a newsletter on public language
Fake populism; "big asks"; Kamala echoes Keir; Jenrick clichés
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First Draft #31: a newsletter on public language
Election special: Two speeches - why Emmanuel Macron is more interesting than Rishi Sunak
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Reading speed; climate jargon; small talk; the best of the number twos
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