Author: Brian
Letter in Times: Imprisonment without Trial
Letter in the Times on 28 January on Imprisonment without Trial
Horrible linguistic solecisms department, Part 4.
More linguistic horrors: peninsula/-ar; media is; data and agenda; singular subjects with plural verbs, and vice versa; a dead clich? and two persistent misconceptions.
The appointment of John Scarlett
Concerns, some legitimate, about the appointment of the new head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6): the failure in the WMD dossier affair to maintain the essential distinction between (a) the collection and analysis of intelligence, and (b) the formulation and public presentation of government policy.