The arguments advanced by government ministers like David Willetts
for the draconian reform of university funding are confused and
specious. They would certainly fail any exam in logic. Rather than
reason, they depend on various forms of mediatised rhetoric, like
Orwell’s newspeak, or doublespeak, or what the writer Steve Poole
has called unspeak—although sometimes they amount to simple
misrepresentation, derived from hasty and inadequate statistics, or
falsehood resulting from denial.