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Mind your language

Can politicians say ‘crusade’ again? David Cameron thinks so

The English-speaking warriors who set off to free the Holy Places did not call themselves crusaders

17 October 2015

8:00 AM

17 October 2015

8:00 AM

One thing grabbed my attention from David Cameron’s speech, long ago in the middle of last week. ‘We need a national crusade to get homes built.’ I’m as interested in housing as the next mother with a practically homeless grown-up daughter, but it was the word crusade that astonished me.

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