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Snappy - but confusing from loiswakeman 881 days old

Headline writers have a difficult tightrope to walk. Their words must be short and to the point, but nevertheless convey the right message. The Telegraph ...

Wonky saying of the week from loiswakeman 973 days old

"Like Marie Antoinette, they want to have their cake and eat it" - Ed Vaizey MP, commenting on the Lib Dem policy on Trident on The Westminster Hour, ...

It's official: Bill Gates thinks Tony Blair is a spammer! from loiswakeman 991 days old

Along with almost 1.8 million of my fellow UK citizens, I signed the petition protesting about pay-per-mile congestion charging for reasons I won't dwell ...

QI = quite interesting - but quite wrong from loiswakeman 1000 days old

"Axolotl is an Aztec word. This is a species of salamander but its pale colour and external gills meant that when first discovered, it was thought to ...

Trips of(f) the tongue from loiswakeman 1011 days old

Most of my posts have been about the written word - but just as people seem not to read what they write, neither do they listen to what they are saying ...

No parrots injured in coach crash from loiswakeman 1040 days old

Please forgive me commenting on a tangential aspect of what was a horrible road accident on the M25/M4 interchange yesterday. I was watching the BBC ...

A fatal hobby from loiswakeman 1068 days old

"Q: I'm interested in block printing and dying. Where can I find out more?" - Angela Simpson writing in the Telegraph travel section, 2nd December A: ...

Tommy Cooper's camera? from loiswakeman 1096 days old

The small ads in our local freesheets are always a treasury of typos - I imagine a lot of them are read out over the phone or written on scraps of paper, ...

Ask the expert? from loiswakeman 1097 days old

'Within three or four days, the first "radical" root appears. When this is about 5cm (2in) long, transfer the seed to the pre-warmed compost. Don't ...

The MIRCC principle from loiswakeman 1118 days old

I just visited a web site that came with its very own user manual, taking up the left third of the home page: "How to best view this website We designed ...