Lay readers will not know what I mean by this. It’s a word that’s being bandied about everywhere in the debate about the future of public service broadcasting (something else which lay, non-media, people are bemused about – see below).
Plurality means more than one. So let’s just say more than one instead of plurality. It’s easier to say and is three syllables rather than four.
Absolutely right. It’s one of those words couched in politics. In my experience, the very people who use words like ‘plurality’ are the same people who try to stop other people saying or believing certain things. They tend to favour censorship even as they advocate liberty.