British 'settlers' abuse English language

by citatel Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 06:14:03 AM EST

How would you call originial inhabitants of a country or region?    

In Orwellian world of British journalism, the correct word is..."settlers"!

"Serbian settlers plan partition of Kosovo" says Daily Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/23/wserbia223.xml

Russian gas and European policy

by citatel Fri Feb 8th, 2008 at 11:06:19 PM EST

I just read an extremely interesting testimony of Professor Helm before the British House of Lords on Russian and European gas policy.

Here some excerpts:

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