Mind your language
Knocked up
Mind your language: Knocked up
Should things still grow ‘like Topsy’?
I’ve heard two people in the past week make a jocular remark about things just growing ‘Like Topsy’. They were…
Why ‘great’ should be used with great caution
Sir Keir Starmer told his party conference last month that a Labour government would within a year set up a…
What makes a ‘crisis’?
In his picture from 1932, ‘Derrière la gare Saint-Lazare’, Henri Cartier-Bresson caught the moment when a man in a hat…
The problem with Liz Truss’s ‘growth, growth, growth’ slogan
‘You’re easily pleased.’ said my husband when I told him how satisfying I found a chance discovery. It was about…
Why ‘pop’ is popping up everywhere
The Guardian kindly tells us that green is a colour whose time has come: ‘A blazer or a cotton shirt…
What ‘Budget’ and ‘bilge’ have in common
The Budget (which the revolutionary fiscal act last week was technically not) is directly connected with bilge and with one…
When did mourners stop crying and start ‘welling up’?
‘We got a gusher!’ exclaimed my husband in his idea of the accent of a Texan oil prospector. Normally, I’m…
