Friday Fun 10: Who ever said text-speak was new?
It’s everywhere – you’d better get used to it. It’s a language we all must learn – both to be able to understand messages sent
It’s everywhere – you’d better get used to it. It’s a language we all must learn – both to be able to understand messages sent
This was almost too good to be true… But thanks to Nick Harkaway’s twitter feed, this rightly went around the place yesterday
This is a bit of an experimental departure for me. But whether it’s successful or not, I had fun doing it. Anna Blanch asked me to
I’m in the throes of that dreaded annual ordeal: the tax return. For some reason (best known to probably not very many people at all),
Here’s another gem from Elaine Feinstein’s lovely anthology of city recollections and reflections. This time though it is of a more historical nature, the tribute
It’s a word that gets used very lightly these days. It might besaid that Djokovic triumphed over Nadal on Sunday at Wimbledon. Or that Obama
It’s a small anthology that I’ve occasionally dipped into, having heard Elaine Feinstein speaking some months back on Radio 4. Cities is a collection of
I said last week that I was offering the final instalment of Whitehall Wisdom. Well, I subsequently realised that I had omitted perhaps the most
We come at last to the final instalment of Whitehall Wisdom. It’s more a random string of pearls than a topical arrangement this time, but
One of the acute difficulties of British etiquette is the profound problem of meaning – there can be a huge disparity between the literal/surface meaning
Here are some further lessons from Yes Prime Minister. This time, mainly from Sir Humphrey, on the art of managing your department minister, however senior
This week we follow Bernard as he comes to terms with some of the realities of political life, usually as a result of the instructions