13 DECEMBER 2008, page 22

Mind Your Language

Clichés gather on the tide and stick on the shingle of daily life like tarred bladderwrack. A curious species of cliché sets a stereotyped pattern, into which words may be......

Obama Is Just Bryan Adams Without Music

O’ar Pali talks to the ageing Canadian rocker and realises that the President-elect has merely emulated the pious popstar rhetoric that has made Adams a global brand I t would......