What seemed to be a new phrase burst into the linguistic currency last week, courtesy of Boy Miliband, currently our foreign secretary. He was referring to the Burmese ruling junta, coining the phrase "Malign neglect" to describe its response to the cyclone disaster. In fact, the phrase was not new. It was coined in 1994 by US author Michael Tonry ...
Posted on EU Referendum
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Malign neglect
