18 DECEMBER 2004, page 25

Poor Jack Is Dead

Geoffrey Wheatcroft on how the death of his greyhound affected him more than he had expected, and perhaps more than it should have done S omebody once said that the English......

Mind Your Language

I felt, the other day, like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken. The nova in my telescope was not just a new word but a new tense. No doubt this......