Batey, Nimmo, Guyler, Griffiths, Hatton, Jarman, Jacobi… If your name happens to be Derek, you have a statistically higher chance of becoming famous than if you’re called Gilbert. And [...]
Tis the season of the satsuma, that Christmassy citrus delight that’s so easy to peel and fills the room with what 5th-century Chinese poet Liu Hsun described as a “fragrant mist”.
Here’s a word that will trigger very different responses in readers, depending on whether you work in a bank, a hospital, in new business development, on the railways, at sea, or, like me, [...]
There are many words you could use to describe the American Presidential election. You’ll have your own favourites. The word that kept popping into my mind was ‘faucet’. This is [...]
“I talk to the trees but they don’t listen to me.” So sang Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon. It was the song that both began and ended his singing career, an optimistic little [...]
