The fuzzy meaning space is becoming depressingly overcrowded
One of the many things I like about Today, the BBC’s venerable morning radio news programme, is its tradition of having the likes of Prince Harry, Angelina Jolie and Stephen Hawking guest edit over Christmas. I was listening to the show last Monday when presenter Amol Rajan started talking about this year’s line-up. It included Olympic cyclist, Laura Kenny, and former chancellor, Sajid Javid.
Anyone who says they are working on the “defence piece” or the “climate piece” is telling you almost nothing. If they say they have just joined a counterterrorism think-tank, or a carbon trading firm, you would know where you were. Likewise, there is no excuse for using a woolly word such as “space”, as in “the defence space”, when perfectly good words like “industry” or “sector” can do the job.
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