Title: Poorly concealed partisanship
Review: The premise of this book is sound, but as other reviewers have said, it is an unstructured mess. It starts off well enough, but after a few chapters of directionless examples of bad language, one starts to become bored.Then, part way through the book, Watson starts showing his true colours. On page 103 he takes an inoffensive quote from Australia's ex-PM (John Howard), that being "As a people, we have traditionally engaged the world optimistically. Our open, friendly nature makes us welcome guests and warm hosts", and then spends the next page arguing that this echoes the propaganda of the Third Reich. Earth to Don: the Nazis wore shoes, but all people who wear shoes aren't Nazis. We know you're a red-hot Labor man and hate Howard's guts, but be a good fellow and keep it out of your book about public language.The book is replete with this type of stuff. Avoid.
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