I am starting to produce material for the fast-growing Business and Politics site. (Fear not. This site continues unabated, soon with a face-lift.) Such as this piece today on whether it is ‘suicidal’ to expect continuing economic growth, or suicidal not to: What is economic growth, in fact? It’s nothing […]
… why not have one who is lively, unconventional – and knows more about computers than even some teenagers? Someone who makes you think about the future, not the past. Who pours out ideas. And whose own website tops the global Google rankings for the word Unreasonable. Sounds good to […]
Time for a change in English libel laws. The core idea of the law is sound. If X tells untruths about Y and damages Y’s reputation, Y should have an action for damages against X. But the procedural, costs and other legal encrustations which have grown on this sensible idea […]
I stopped reading Andrew Sullivan after he started gushing against the Iraq war after gushing so strongly in favour of it. The vile images of the Abu Ghraib abuse of Iraqi prisoners seemed to sway him against the whole enterprise, as if he only then realised that war is a […]
My observations on the Decay of Language have made it to the Independent, albeit in a somewhat truncated and mysterious form, ie leaving out the bits about No 10’s spelling incompetence and not making it clear that the opening passages were not by me but from a reader. Still, the main point […]
Remember all those eggcorns? A nice one in Telegraph Mobile today: European shares endure their worst week in almost a year as investors speculate whether Eurozone countries will tow the line. Whereas in fact it should be … Meanwhile over at Plane Stupid: The appointment puts BAA in an incredibly strong position […]
For no reason I can fathom this posting from April last year about Blogging Semiotic Remora Fish attracts a steady stream of rubbishy spam attempted comments aimed at selling running shoes. I merely sigh and delete them. Why that one?
My latest Eggcorn posting ended thusly: Isn’t a language like anything else? Without proper care and attention it just decays? An eagle-eyed reader in Greece asked whether I had meant to add the question-mark. I replied that I had put it in to nod in the direction of the thought […]
Perusing the website of the British High Commission in Malta (as of course one does) I found this link to a letter written by PM Gordon Brown to Dr Alan Williams MP of the Liaison Committee on the way forward after the Copenhagen Climate Change summit. It also is on the […]
