April quotes highlight problems of insidious corrupting influences referenced in Matthew Syed’s feature, page 21, 19th January, Sunday Times. TikTok security risks (the online video platform owned by Chinese Internet company ByteDance) and rapprochement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) noted in particular. Special attention included to inducements and their capacity to influence judgements and interconnected corporate and political policy decisions. The second quote adapted to be non-gender specific.
‘Corruption, in foreign policy as in so many other areas, is not a symptom of our problems. Corruption is the problem.’
MATTHEW SYED
‘It is difficult to get a someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it.’
UPTON SINCLAIR
GRAMMAR/COMMUNICATION NOTES
Words that sound similar but have disparate meanings:
Proscribe – to forbid something as harmful or unlawful
versus
Prescribe – to dictate a rule for others to follow
Allude – to reference something indirectly
versus
Elude – to avoid or escape someone or something
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