Bemorecreativegate
Ever since the Watergate scandal, lazy journalists and politicians have referred to controversies as whatevergate
. The Iran-Contra affair was Irangate
, there's been more than one memogate
, while the UK had both hackgate
and murdochgate
for one affair, and France had Twittergate
. And there are many, many others.
Now India has coalgate
, a scandal over toothpaste imports alleged corruption in the allocation of coal fields by the Indian government.
Is it too much to ask for a little more imagination? I much prefer the Indian government corruption scandal
, which has the added advantage that it can be recycled indefinitely. And, in all likelihood, will be.