Grammar a tragic victim in war on free speech - The Conservative Woman

LANGUAGE is the means by which we communicate with precision and clarity. - The Conservative Woman - Laurence Hodge 

Today the meaning of words has become increasingly malleable and language is regularly used to gull the listener or reader into at best a state of torpor (listen to Kamala Harris or Keir Starmer) and at worst a state of acquiescence and submission as happens under repressive regimes. 

A couple of recent examples illustrate the point.

• Earlier this year The Spectator published a piece describing as ‘a man who claims to be a woman’ the writer of an interview with Nicola Sturgeon. The individual, a certificated trans person, would not have chosen the description but one cannot deny its accuracy...A complaint was made to IPSO, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (which oversees The Spectator and most of the UK’s print media) after the interviewer, Juno Dawson, claimed to have been ‘deliberately misgendered’...
• My second example...and was detailed by Janice Davis on TCW – but it’s worth highlighting that Mrs Pearson was doorstepped at home on Remembrance Sunday by a couple of police officers unable to tell her anything about her supposed offence or its putative victim...Subsequently and for reasons unrecorded the supposed non-crime hate incident was ‘escalated’ into a potential criminal offence...