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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