Apparently people are fed up with firms using coronavirus as a reason for poor service. But why wouldn’t they?
President Putin has had a clever idea. He’s changed the definition of the word champagne. In Russia, anyway. This is a fascinating use of the unique position he’s in as a fairly elected democratic leader. (He’s also changed the definition of “fairly elected democratic leader”.)
Not many politicians have the power just to declare that a word which has always meant one thing now means another – that sort of thing is usually the preserve of social media. But, if you can get away with it, why wouldn’t you do it? Champagne has positive connotations – why allow them to be frittered away on anything you don’t personally control?
