I’m feeling thwarted. I was going to make this week’s word News and it was going to go like this: corona virus, corona virus, corona virus, corona virus, corona virus, corona virus, [...]
Do you ever stop and wonder about the provenance of certain facts? Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire? Says who? It’s a well known fact that bananas are a rich source of [...]
Ever wondered what’s going on with the word ‘exploit’? I mean, one minute it’s a great thing, such as crossing the Alps on an elephant or discovering Australia; the next [...]
I recently had the melancholy experience of stumbling across an obituary for someone I know. Or knew. Stuart Christie, a daring anarchist who conspired to blow up General Franco and was nearly [...]
