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Mind your language

Is your quotation secretly Nazi?

Misattribution is more common – and sometimes riskier – than you might think

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

I couldn’t help laughing when I found that an Australian senator, Cory Bernardi, had deleted all his tweets from Twitter, apart from a single sad survivor: ‘Parliament finishing up for the year.’ Mr Bernardi had earlier in 2015 tweeted a striking quotation: ‘To know who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.’

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