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Mind Your Language

I had just looked up a phenomenon that a sharp-eared reader had heard on the wireless — the remarkable 'double is' — in Robert Burchfield's New Fowler's, when the telephone rang......

Invasion Of

the lawyers Brendan O'Neill says that America's first gift to Iraq has been the compensation culture and a flood of personal injury claims W hatever you think about democracy......