The Suicides
by Caitriona O’Reilly (for St Patrick’s Day) They ask: the world gives them a stone, revolving until the greater part of her is in darkness. Out among the night-stations the…
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14 March 2014From the wallet to the ballot
A transcript of a video interview with Tony Benn from The Guardian in which he discusses democracy: I think every single issue that exists today about... -
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6 November 2013Yo, bro, fop off
I wish Russell Brand would just piss off. He has no answers, he just whines on and on in his shabby nasal self-importance. Has he got a booky wook out... -
12 October 2013Civilising business
I started reading the comments on an FT story about Ed Miliband (£) expecting at least one cogent objection that took to task the actual content of t... -
9 October 2013Look before you let
The bedroom tax is much more complicated than John Hemming’s simplistic advice suggests. And so is sub-letting as a resident landlord. In the Bi...
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The Suicides
by Caitriona O’Reilly (for St Patrick’s Day) They ask: the world gives them a stone, rev... -
Stopping by Woods on a...
by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will no... -
A Norfolk memory
Smiling inanely at a hare racing up and down the Norfolk sand dunes at dawn, tracking the dumpy knot... -
A golden list, startin...
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing wrote The Golden Notebook in 1962. An experimental, non-chronologi... -
Redefining marriage &#...
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) will soon be updating its definition of marriage, according to G... -
Being a grammar geek, ...
Whether dangling, hanging or unattached, I’m often amused by participles that relate to an uni... -
Know your place
The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit. Update Like most people, whe... -
In defence of obscure ...
Do you know what these words mean: sesquipedalian, desiderata, milt, ineluctable, modality, argot, g... -
Here a smack, there a ...
Disregarding the simplistic and unevidenced class-based pronouncement by David Lammy that a lack of ... -
Sic! The illiterati ar...
Waterstones has outraged the grammar police by dropping the apostrophe from its logo. The Twittersph...
From the wallet to the ballot
A transcript of a video interview with Tony Benn from The Guardian in which he discusses democracy: I think every single issue that exists today about democracy and throughout history…
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill…
