Batey, Nimmo, Guyler, Griffiths, Hatton, Jarman, Jacobi… If your name happens to be Derek, you have a statistically higher chance of becoming famous than if you’re called Gilbert. And [...]
Black Friday, Cyber Monday… it’s all a bit Star Wars, isn’t it? What will they come up with next, Wookiee Wednesday? So I refused to get drawn in this year, preferring to spend [...]
Tis the season of the satsuma, that Christmassy citrus delight that’s so easy to peel and fills the room with what 5th-century Chinese poet Liu Hsun described as a “fragrant mist”.
Here’s a word that will trigger very different responses in readers, depending on whether you work in a bank, a hospital, in new business development, on the railways, at sea, or, like me, [...]