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The News Quiz - 21st October

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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The Language Changes, Isn't It?

There's a lot to learn here about this vote from the Indian Democracy. I heard that during the anti-fracking vote there was some physical jostling, so a little bit of possible violence going on. Man handling and even mokes explaining what people were saying. Language does evolve and change, doesn't it? And, you know, so a technical vote on legislation about fracking mutated swiftly to mean should the Prime Minister be instantly defenestrated. The word conservative, until not that long ago, did not mean taking a sledgehammer to the family crocker in glassware cupboard,. before rolling around in the shattered remnants muttering 'I feel so alive'

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