As though simplicity, directness and 'clarity' in this sense were coterminous.

There is hardly a sentence in English that is not in some sense polysemic, with a range of possible interpretations.

The linguistically gamesome, literarily ludic, neologising Marx arguably invented a whole dialect the better to theorise.

It would be at best vainglorious for a political writer to suppose herself exempt from this

In the days of 'There Is No Alternative', we are all Panglossian pessimists: we live in the best of all possible worlds, and it is shit.

Jewish communal bodies wrote to Corbyn and blamed his sloppiness on a whole Weltanschauung of the 'far left', seeing not just anti-Zionism but all class politics as tinged with an innate tendency towards anti-Semitism

The existence of Jewophobia is not a sufficient condition for liberal and conservative panic about it, but the same ructions might just explain both today.

It takes considerable temerity to sit atop a Bantustan with immense military might, suffocating Gaza, sunbathing in Tel Aviv, living in the stolen homes of refugees, and then to play the victim

The breakdown of old algorithms occasions epistemological crisis; hence liberalism's panicked lachrymosity, the outrage of denied entitlement, conspiracism and self-righteousness.

contradictions and superpluses, the unconscious, the unsayable. They are not supererogatory to reality: to the contrary. Nor ca they be so to those who strive to change it.