This is the first Word of the Week under a Labour government and it’s fitting perhaps that the new regime coincides with a sudden proliferation of ants in my life. (Hands up if you thought [...]
This time last week, Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous groundhog (the world’s only famous groundhog) was emerging from his burrow to make his annual weather prediction. If he [...]
This is going to really rile my friend Andrew, who’s been trying to persuade me to include hyphenated words and his own pet hate ‘no problem’ for years. I’ve had to point [...]
It’s always an exciting moment when a frog takes up residence in your pond, especially when it’s the first and only frog that’s appeared there in over eight years. It raises [...]
Imagine you knew without any doubt that the world was going to end… but not just yet. Not imminently. Well, imminently in relation to the lifetime of the planet but not imminently in a [...]
