Apostrophe joke

Know your place

The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit. Update Like most people, when I saw this I smiled knowingly without looking much further than the joke’s obvious intention,…

Skeletal hands on keyboard

Organising power

While trade unions in the UK represent more than six million workers (many more than the 400k or so of Tory and Labour members added together), it is fairly widely…

Shakespeare sonnets with rose

In defence of obscure words

Do you know what these words mean: sesquipedalian, desiderata, milt, ineluctable, modality, argot, grue, heliotropic, solipsism? Would you be put off reading something if a writer had you reaching for…

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