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Mind your language

How a ‘back’ gets confused for a ‘bat’

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

My husband may not often be right, but he had some cogent criticism of the much-quoted words of Geoffrey Howe at his resignation in 1990: ‘Rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.

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