Priorities
It's a busy time in many households, but yesterday I had a few minutes to listen to Seán O'Rourke on Radio 1 , and the piece stopped me in my tracks. I forgot that I was trying to cook something flavoursome for a very health conscious teen and work through some last minute.com stuff. Listen to it: to the couple who have meat at weekends and then it's always mince but during the week eat bread and fruit, and veg from their own garden because they simply don't have the money as they struggle to pay the mortgage to keep a roof over their heads; the man who is being put through hell by his bank even though he has been up front and straightforward when he got in trouble with payments, attended the doctor who wrote a letter to 'the bank' - the response horrified me: he received a 7 day notice to vacate his home with his family from 'the bank'! By calling it 'the bank', we neutralise the noun and that takes responsibility off real people. 'The...