I first noticed it when they were ranting (very politely, of course) about some Indian policy change. They never said "the Indian government;" it was always "Modi's nationalist party."
There was another example where their podcast was playing the sounds of various religions. For church bells, the speaker said "who'd want to live next to that," and for other demographics, he'd say "ah lovely."
> I first noticed it when they were ranting (very politely, of course) about some Indian policy change. They never said "the Indian government;" it was always "Modi's nationalist party."
What sly British language? They do the same when talking about other countries - Liz Truss, Kwarteng and the Tories, Biden and the Democrats, Macron, etc. It's pinning political actions on the people and factions responsible instead of obscuring them behind a faceless "the government".
(not following now as covid lockdown ended and I stopped reading/listening to the news so much, so not sure if it still applied with Biden)