Book review – English grammar

If ‘incorrect’ English is what’s widely understood, how can it be wrong?

7 March 2015 9:00 am

In a cheeringly Dickensian fashion, the names of our supposed experts on grammar imply they want to bind writers (Lynne…

Why is 'loo' slang? Because Simon Heffer says so!

31 May 2014 9:00 am

Did Simon Heffer’s new book come out on St George’s Day? If not, it probably should have done. If we…