Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen is a poet and broadcaster.
Articles by Michael Rosen
In a word: Drone
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In a word: Ceasefire
The latest from Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: Coup
The latest from Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: War
The latest from Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: Landslide
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: Extremist
Michael Rosen's language column
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In a word: Genocide
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: Ivory tower
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: Resign
Resigning is all the rage
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In a word: Kangaroo court
What do kangaroos have to do with dodgy justice?
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In a word: Memoir
“To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself”
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In a word: “mob”
In one syllable, “mob” reduces a group of people into a dangerous mass. What are the roots of this divisive term?
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In a word: scandal
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: “Process”
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: “Immunise”
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: refugee
Extensive coverage of refugee arrivals in the UK has placed the word at the heart of our political discourse. But what are its origins?
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In a word
The verb "to cancel" is being given new life. But who is cancelling whom?
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In a word: take the knee
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: denier
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: quarantine
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: leader
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: will (of the people)
Michael Rosen's column about language and its uses.
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In a word: violence
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: cult
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: deal
Michael Rosen's column about language and its uses.
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In a word: scam
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: well-being
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: affordable
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: hub
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: referendum
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: Corbynista
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: global
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: faith
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: grammar
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
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In a word: crisis
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: academy
Michael Rosen's column on the uses and misuses of language,
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In a word: regeneration
Michael Rosen's column on the uses and misuses of language.
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In a word: charter
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: reform
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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In a word: fix
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In a word: economy
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
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You’re in Denial
Michael Rosen on saying No
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Restoring Order
Michael Rosen wonders what is normal in the language of war and peace
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Who’s We?
Michael Rosen ponders the smug pronoun
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Relatively Speaking
Michael Rosen wonders where the modern family ends
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Stay in Heaven
Michael Rosen on the poetry of Jacques Prevert
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