As a little sequitur to Mrs Malaprop's splendid post about railway-speak on Thursday, the train I was on today suddenly stopped somew...

The UK Government’s Treasury Select Committee has recently conducted an enquiry into “Women in the City” (which, until I checked the Commi...

I have just received an email inviting me to buy Christmas presents at Sweaty Betty , which for the uninitiated is a shop selling fashionabl...

According to yesterday's Evening Standard (which was forced on me by a wild-eyed maiden in W.H. Smiths), Leona Lewis has paid tribu...

Railway-speak is a peculiar dialect, characterised by tortuous phrasing, a fondness for neologism, and a seeming reluctance to take respon...

The word elaphine means of or pertaining to a stag. Therefore, stag nights, stag parties, stag dos, stag drinks, stag weekends and all suc...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow I didn't realise for years that blow in this poem may actually mean bloom.   It's the second...