It’s a minefield, as we say in English
Hello. How are you? How’s your English? Mine’s fine, thanks. But then I’ve spent several decades hearing, speaking, reading, studying, teaching and writing English. I’ve been surrounded by native English speakers all my life. I’ve never had to learn the... Read MoreWhat’s the big deal with the small print?
A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on, according to the famous quote from Oscar-winning producer Sam Goldwyn. Never mind that Goldwyn always claimed it wasn’t his line (the joke had been around for decades before it was... Read MoreIt’s all in the, uh, timing
Funny, isn’t it, how a phrase suddenly becomes topical? "February heatwave" was hardly a common Google search term a week ago, but here we are, digging out our tennis rackets and dusting off our surfboards, exactly a year on from... Read MoreKilling Eve’s killer ghostwriter
OK, OK. What’s so good about Killing Eve? Well, the short answer is ‘Almost everything’. OK, so it’s a load of hokum about an icily gorgeous, ridiculously athletic, wittily multilingual, sexually ambivalent, engagingly psychopathic assassin and the woman who sets... Read More