A few definitions
Corporate – Crassly immoral by design, behaving like a person, without being a person – like a robot or a vampire.
Corporatespeak – The euphemistic, strangely neutral language of modern business, where junking people becomes “downsizing” or “restructuring.” See “Retrenchment”.
Corruption(a) – Both the benefits of political success and the way to achieve it.
Corruption (b)– Reserved, in the South African media, for black people and Africans on the continent. Other more precise terms like ‘collusion’, ‘misappropriation’ etc describe corrupt practices of white people. Always focuses on the recipients of the bribe, usually in developing countries, not the bribers, usually in developed countries.
Cricket – Famously, a sport invented to give the naturally prosaic English an idea of eternity. Also, a facet of British imperialism puzzlingly embraced by the victims of that imperialism.
Culture war – A way of distracting attention from pressing matters like class divisions, persistent poverty and chimerical social mobility, and human agency.
Reg Rumney 