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Radio 4,16 Feb 2007,10 mins

Fidgets on the March

A Point of View

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Clive James rails against changes to the names of things we rely on - such as railways and the Royal Mail - as a type of costly and annoying ‘fidgeting’. He points to other disturbing developments in what he sees as a growing misuse of language.

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