They should just say sorry!

Britain's Channel 4 and the Oxford English Dictionary people have unveiled “youthquake” as their Word of the Year.

A selection based somewhat narrowly on the UK’s 2017 general election, when many undergraduates roused themselves sufficiently to get on the electoral roll and vote Labour because Mr Corbyn appeared to promise that as prime minister he would write off their student loans and abolish university fees. He explained after the election that it was not a commitment. Hey, that’s politics, kids, but thanks for your votes!

Mr Corbyn should apologise. The New York Times says the phrase of the year is “I apologise”. Corporates have apologised for their massive blunders, entertainers and politicians have said they’re very, very sorry for making unwanted sexual advances (while also denying accusations), advertising agencies have sincerely regretted perceived racial slurs, Canada’s government atoned for discriminating against LGBTQ people, and Scotland’s first minister “categorically, unequivocally and wholeheartedly” apologised to men who had been prosecuted when homosexual acts were illegal, even though she had no responsibility of any kind in the matter. Many of these apologies were categorically insincere, while some of them can be written off as virtue signalling, a trending term for the use of which we unequivocally apologise.