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Breaking point: is the writing on the wall for the paragraph? (The Guardian 22/5/2015)
If the statistics are to be believed, by the end of this sentence, I’ll have lost most of you. Because according to some estimates, the average time spent on a webpage is 15 seconds.
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What exactly are our rules comprised of? (The Economist 23 April 2015)
MIXED reactions greeted the news in February that a man had edited thousands of Wikipedia articles with a single, special passion. His mission?
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Anaphora hot. Anaphora cold. Politicians’ rhetoric sounds tired and old (Mind your language, 21 April 2015)
The consequences of overestimating our own abilities can be grave.
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A bullying, interfering waster: how politics gave the state a bad name (The Guardian 16/4/2015)
Personification can help us make sense of the world, but Margaret Thatcher and her successors have used it to turn the helping hand of society into an outstretched leg
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Anthropomorphic language – it’s only human (The Guardian)
A little while ago, I went for a walk and spotted a frog in the middle of the pavement.
