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 [...]
I once won a competition to name a new brand of Japanese food. ‘Fudi’ was my ingenious suggestion, cleverly melding the word ‘food’ with the iconic Japanese mountain in a [...]
The start of a new year is always a good time for campaigning, so while you’re feeling post-Christmas bluesy and susceptible to any idea that might just blow a hole in the clouds, I’d [...]
This Christmas, as you’re filling your trolley with bounteous joy, spare a thought for those forgotten words that are not having such a happy time right now.
It probably didn’t escape your attention that, hot on the heels of Nadine Dorries launching her new book, The Plot, about “the political assassination of Boris Johnson”, the [...]