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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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The Guardian (30/5/2014): A good pun is its own reword.
A good pun is its own reword From Battersea Flower Station to Blonde Dye Bleach, everyone wants to be punny. What’s your favourite? Jonathan Swift as portrayed on stage at the Edinburgh festival in 2012. The author of Gulliver’s Travels appreciated a good pun. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Samuel Johnson may have regarded puns as the […]