Cutting through the jargon to decipher the PM's keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference

The Prime Minister got his conference to stand and applaud a speech that said Britain wasn't so great if you were female, gay, a Muslim or poor

George Osborne gave a clever speech, Theresa May a serious one, but the Mayor of London swept them both aside

The Conservative party conference featured a clever speech from one of the most self-conciously clever people in politics

Journalese, missteps and ungainly innovations in usage in this week's Independent

Plus the latest on the Hillary email scandal, Thatcher vol. 2 and the nirvana fallacy

Plus the difference between intelligence and rationality, and another word quiz

In his first conference address as party leader, Jeremy Corbyn recycled lines that  had been published by Richard Heller, a former adviser to Denis Healey.  ? In an age of jobbing speechwriters, does it matter? Blair's biographer, John Rentoul, considers the question

Plus: the Labour leader ’ s big test tomorrow ?  ‘haffely, gaffely, gaffely gonward’

Suggested by Don Phillips. The word comes from a childhood mishearing of 'They have slain the Earl o'Moray/ And laid him on the green' as 'And Lady Mondegreen', from the traditional ballad 'The Bonny Earl of Murray', admitted to by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper's Bazaar article. I asked for new ones.

Exclusive: It’s a mistake to just target the young, think tank warns - to do so risks electoral oblivion for Labour

Usually, party leaders deal with the gap between activists and target voters by giving the activists in the hall clap lines which do not offend target voters

Plus more Thatcher, modern liberalism and the loss aversion theory of the EU referendum

A new contemporary history venture sheds new light on a prime minister who divided opinion like no other

From anticipointment and sonder to kenopsia and monachopsis...

New leader is good for politics, says public