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She knew they were failures, and he read her disapproval in every perfunctory and unenthusiastic line of her letter. And she was right.

But Humpty Dumpty used words in an odd way, and that made him a master of gobbledygook, not a master of language.

The Stern book may be careful to avoid academic gobbledygook and complex equations, but it cannot be described as a light read.

Perhaps, however, Mr MacAskill's moralising is merely rhetorical chaff, thrown up to disguise the realpolitik that lay behind the release.

Italy, the land of Dante, declared war on officialese recently, vowing to simplify the way the state communicates with its citizens.

English bureaucracy seems to have swathed in red tape at its birth.

on the form of American language to avoid dealing with the substance of American complaints .

There's too much continuity with the bumbling and mishandling by the previous administration. Not enough discontinuity.

Part of India's academic problem may be the way red tape ties up its universities, says Ben Sowter, head of the QS intelligence unit.