Wednesday, September the 8th, 2004
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Some while ago I had cause to mention the new fad for appointing Tsars (see 28 July). Another word which seems to hold our leaders in its thrall is “hub”. I live near a hub, apparently, or at least a hub-to-be, though quite when official hubdom is to be conferred on it is uncertain. Perhaps the most preposterous use of the word in its new senseless sense is one I heard on the television news yesterday. Those places where children go to be educated will no longer be known by that fuddy-duddy term “schools” in bright new Britain… no, they will become “community hubs”. Let's hope Alice Cooper can be persuaded to release an updated Community Hub's Out. Onward and upward!