The word ‘labour’ has vanished from newsroom vocabularies: Nationwide, most newsrooms are non-union to this day, we seem to prefer it that way

Censors in Romania used to keep a list of forbidden nouns. "Meat," "queue"and "cold"were blacklisted as disturbing imagery for Romanians forced to queue in the cold for meat. Also banished was "breast," "Stalinism," "demolition," "sex"and "police informer."

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