Or, possibly, it may not be. But that’s the sort of headline that makes my heart sink when I spot it in my morning Metro, because it means that some overworked journalist has glanced at a press release announcing new research, written it up in five minutes flat and had a sub create a nonsensical [...]
I normally depend on Marie Phillips for Strictly Come Dancing online discussions, but as she is incapacitated, I will have to post this here and not there. Why, in the name of all that is good and sparkly, did the BBC this week choose to replace the also incapacitated Brucie with Ronnie Corbett? I mean, [...]
Why are people described as “bookish”? You don’t describe other people as like the objects they enjoy. No one is ever called “filmish” or “gardenish” or “golfish” or “boatish”. What is it about books that makes us describe people who like them as if they are mere human hardcovered volumes instead of people?