‘Observer’ oddities
Examples of several eyebrow-raising items in yesterday’s ‘Observer’ newspaper, with commentary [More >>>]
Category: Miscellaneous
More media monstrosities
A new selection of howlers, solecisms and other follies from the print media in the early weeks of 2008 [More >>>]
More media horrors from 2007
Literature is alright, still — Heading of Guardian column by Maya Jaggi, one of the judges of the 2007 Orange prize for Fiction, Guardian, 13 Dec 07. But the booby prize no doubt goes...
Honour for a yeoman bed goer
A “Queen’s body-guard yeoman bed goer” is just one of those in the new year honours list whose occupation prompts feverish speculation [More >>>]
‘Hitler’s Favourite Royal’: getting it right (not)
A historical consultant to the TV programme ‘Hitler’s Favourite Royal’ confirms that it contained some errors in describing the Duke of Albany’s royal relationships, here corrected [More >>>]
Thoughts on England
Brian’s contribution to the series “What England means to me”, at http://whatenglandmeanstome.co.uk/?p=94, reproduced here in full [More >>>]
Some observations on this and that
Comments, serious and less so, on a smattering of recent happenings, from the Queen’s speech and Jack Straw walking backwards in drag, to Camilla, Princess of Wales, and the death of an exorcist [More >>>]
Jottings after an absence
Random comments after three weeks away on: Gordon Brown’s conference speech, meritocracy and equality of outcomes, the election date fever, the new flawed case for the attack on Iraq, Blair’s limited new job, and the latest folly of the Foreign Office censors [More >>>]
Ephems AFK* for three weeks
Ephems is away for the next three weeks and unable to reply to comments, however misguided.
Ministerial language
Add your contribution to the discussion of recent ministerial linguistic solecisms at http://www.invisionplus.net/forums/index.php?mforum=languagegroup&act=ST&f=5&t=194&st=0, or in Ephems.