It's a fashion for using abstract words and systems as a way of avoiding real involvement with people, and clambering up the promotion ladder, and it's spread like an infection across education, social work, medicine, police work, politics, business - you name it.

No point in trying to identify it with any particular political party, they all fell victim to it long ago.

Maybe some day the infection will run its course, and we'll all wake up and start behaving like humans. Don't hold your breath.

But a time will surely come when people will look back and won't be able to believe we were such a collection of blind fools.