26 JANUARY 2008, page 70

I Am Not Ashamed To Admit That I Want To Be Famous Today....

‘S o,’ said the television interviewer, fixing me with an inquisitorial stare, ‘why are you so desperate to be a celebrity?’ This was last week on BBC2, but the question comes......

Mind Your Language

It is not fair to blame the Americans for every element of speech that we don’t like, but there are a couple of pieces of syntax that have blown like some New World bacterium......