When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I’m rich and complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m starting to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality.Russell Brand made that point clearly, concisely and quite well. He can also use more words to make half of approximately the same point, then go on to win himself the Plain English Campaign's "Foot in Mouth" award for outstanding gobbledygook:
A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk… How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras’d my Essex arse with undue praise and money.
Fortunately, the relevant advice is out there and has been for some time:
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.Arthur Quiller-Couch
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