I happened to read the word shebang yesterday and, perhaps it was seeing it in print, I suddenly realised that I had no idea what it reall...

Just a repost. There's a rather strange work by Thomas Nashe called Summer's Last Will and Testament . It is about the handover ...

Rob Colvile gave the Inky Fool a mention in his Telegraph column yesterday . He was referring to a post from 2009 by Mrs Malaprop and how...

J.K. Rowling, it turns out, is Robert Galbraith. Or vice versa, I'm bad at keeping up with such things. And so people keep repeating th...

I went to see Joss Whedon’s (excellent) film of Much Ado about Nothing recently, and when we left the cinema everybody starting making the...

Sometimes words fall into my lap, as it were. I was just reading this article on why testicles are on the outside , and came across the lin...

As much of today's conversation will be about tennis, my annual Wimbledon repost. You should point out to anyone who'll listen th...