Zim-EU talks: Our last hope

WHEN two people who haven’t been in talking terms for nearly two decades somehow, by some stroke of fate, decide to meet for a chit-chat, it would be most gratifying if the two are sincere.

One of mankind’s greatest writers aptly put it thus: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns — as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

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