George Orwell wrote a pamphlet in 1946 entitled 'Politics and the English Language'. Although long out of print, it can be readily accessed on the internet. 'Political language,' Orwell says, 'is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind'. He introduced the world to 'Newspeak' in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Steven Poole, a book reviewer for The Guardian, acknowledges Orwell early in Unspeak, but wants the reader to believe he's on to something new. He isn't. That's not to say Unspeak has nothing to say. Poole offers an often amusing and at times fascinating, if somewhat excited, look at the ways people on the left and right weave tangled webs of deception. Orwell said the 'defence of the indefensible' means 'political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness'. His solution was to 'change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase ... into the dustbin, where it belongs'.