First Draft
AlexA newsletter on public language from The Draft.
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First Draft #36: a newsletter on public language
‘What’s wrong, Don?’
What’s “Wrong”? - On Keir Starmer’s favourite word
In 1986, Helen Steel and David Morris handed out a few hundred copies of “What’s Wrong With McDonald’s?” The short pamphlet accused the foreign invader of a number of...
First Draft #35: a newsletter on public language
Did he really just say that?
On Trump’s F-bomb
Gasps rang out at The Draft HQ when we heard the clip. Was it an AI deepfake? No, it really was the President of the United States standing in front of reporters and proudly saying the word...
First Draft #34: a newsletter on public language
What today’s leaders can learn from Victorian free trade campaigners
Richard Cobden led the most successful pressure group in British history. The Anti-Corn Law League, founded in the 1830s, overturned tariffs on imported grain and ushered...
First Draft #33: a newsletter on public language
Populist lies flow from an underlying truth
The reason to mistrust the power of rhetorical persuasion, writes Aristophanes in The Clouds, is that the skilled charlatan can “make the weaker argument the stronger”. In this year of elections,...
First Draft #32: a newsletter on public language
The perils of not being yourself (and why populism is hard to fake)
The biggest cringe of 2024 comes courtesy of Donald Trump running mate JD Vance. “Democrats think it’s racist to do anything,” said the senator to a crowd of MAGA-hatted s...
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