14 APRIL 2007, page 16

Mind Your Language

I’ve been reading with unexpected pleasure The First English Dictionary (Bodleian, £12.99), an edition of a list of 2,500 ‘hard usual English words’ compiled by Robert Cawdrey......

Our Enemies Are Right To Mock Us

Theodore Dalrymple blames the hostage crisis on profound social and psychological changes of which Mr Blair is both a symptom and a cause A taxi driver in Mexico City, who in my......