Here is my column , called Last Word published in the Winter edition of Thomson Reuters’ Workplace Review

 

Schmahkritik, (n) (German), 20th century; abusive criticism.

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As this edition of Workplace Review goes to press we are coming to the end of a very long election campaign. Election campaigns have long since been a competition of ideas or plans for the future of the nation. Slogans or three- to four-word tag lines repeated ad nauseam have become the major parties’ lingua franca of campaigning. Please don’t expect elections to reveal novel, well thought-out policies. Such, need to be the stuff discussed over cheese and cheap wine and by twenty dollars-an-hour focus groups before an unveiling. Modern electioneering is devoid of new ideas and reduced to beauty parades, controlled meetings a la North Korea, gaffes, “gotcha” moments and, alas, schmahkritik.

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