Decisions pending: Make it, take it, fake it

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Decisions pending: Make it, take it, fake it

Barbara
Fountain
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Decision-making as a precursor to decision-taking – there is a difference [Image: Varyna Bondarchuk on iStock]

Not words again! In the continuing saga that is an editor’s lot, Barbara Fountain finds herself puzzling over a politician’s choice of words, which leads down a dubious path

The emphatic use of an imperious “take” where an occasional “make” might suffice, sat uneasy with my editor sensibilities Prime minister Christop