30 JUNE 2007, page 26
Mind Your Language
The poet Hugo Williams, in an entertaining ramble around changes in language in the TLS the other day, noted that curate's egg is now widely used to mean 'a mixed blessing',......
'it Was All Because Of The Spectator, You Know'
Chinua Achebe, the grandfather of African literature, talks to Clemency Burton-Hill about writing in English, his native Nigeria — and the role this magazine played in his story......