Baby looking surprised

Here a smack, there a smack

Disregarding the simplistic and unevidenced class-based pronouncement by David Lammy that a lack of parental self-confidence in disciplining children could be partly responsible for so profound a social problem as…

Apostrophe

Sic! The illiterati are out in force

Waterstones has outraged the grammar police by dropping the apostrophe from its logo. The Twittersphere is ablaze with the defence of a punctuation mark that Boots, Morrisons, and Debenhams seem…

Selfridges Birmingham

From swanky New York to Birmingham balti

Say ‘Birmingham’ to a New Yorker and they’ll be thinking Sweet Home, Alabama, not Brum’s inner-city Balti Triangle. But, America’s popular newspaper The New York Times has ranked England’s second…

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