Category: Miscellaneous

Bathos in a mendicant letter from Africa

Which former British ambassador spoke such good Russian that he was thought to be a Russian?

A gender issue in the Financial Times

Jane Barder writes that husbands of Queens Regnant (queens reigning in their own right, not queens by virtue of being married to kings) have never been welcomed in England.

The chairman of the Campaign for Real Education uses the New Grammar himself

An old shaggy toad story, more or less as told by the late Sir John Killick

Robin Fairley responds with his reminiscences about Fettes

Time to start observing some neglected biblical injunctions

The Guardian at it again