In reply to andybenham:
The Mandala/Mandela thing was pointed out ages ago by Tom Briggs, who then inexplicably deleted his post.
I've acknowledged my mistake on that, but it is why the headline jumped out at me
"Kills" is indeed worse than "Crush", for obvious reasons, but both are horribly triumphalist, which is why I compared it to "Conquest". I thought we were well past the days when we considered mountains, cliffs or even boulders to be conquered just because we'd sneaked our way up them.
And I'm not taking the p*ss out of someone's English, I'm objecting to journalism which is akin to a tabloid claiming someone has "Slaughtered Mount Snowdon" !