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		<title>Civil service metaphors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In government there are a few favourite metaphors that make little sense and I hate them. I suspect that the civil service uses them as much as possible, peppering them through pages of bureaucratic language, nominalisations and passive moods. And they do this deliberately. It’s all part of the plot against editorial staff.

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