Unspeak, writer Steven Poole’s term for a phrase or word that contains a whole unspoken political argument, deserves a place in every journalist’s daily vocabulary. Such gems of unspeak ...

Propaganda would seem to do the job. Still, Poole's introductory discussion of "unspeak" does usefully describe what's going on. "A whole partisan argument is packaged into a soundbite," he says.

Politicians sometimes come out with such gobsmackingly paradoxical statements that you wonder why professional satirists don't shut up shop and go home. Last week yielded a perfect example, when ...

Steven Poole, a book reviewer for The Guardian, acknowledges Orwell early in Unspeak, but wants the reader to believe he's on to something new. He isn't. That's not to say Unspeak has nothing to say.

The result is Unspeak, 'a mode of speech that persuades by stealth'. Let us start with a comparatively mild example. The group Friends of the Earth has a name which neatly consigns anyone to ...

Politicians are engineering language for their own purposes. We need to watch out, Unspeak author Steven Poole, tells Rosita Boland In one of his less forgettable comments following 9/11 ...

Can you speak 'Unspeak'? I ask this question just a few days before a book is to be published analysing this persuasive and all-pervasive mainly American form of language, but also just a few days ...