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Angry Sub-Editor: Farage and the Hitler Youth
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Farage and the Hitler Youth. My only picture of Farage from school. It has been reported recently that Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, sang "Hitler Youth songs" while in the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) at his school, Dulwich College, in 1981. Bob Jope in November 1981, singing in a school band. Look it up on YouTube? In the bargain racks.
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Angry Sub-Editor: Say it clearly or not at all
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Say it clearly or not at all. In truth, we live in the most literate age the world has ever known, but it doesn't look like it. The question is, does it matter? Moral: Fear is the writer's greatest enemy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Most read this week. New portmanteaux for smug writers. How harassed are you? The nouning of adjectives. When advertising ...
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Angry Sub-Editor: August 2013
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Thursday, August 22, 2013. Should top journalists write their own stories? Lee gets his name in the noosepapers. Oh, the irony. There was a story in the Daily Telegraph. Last month headlined Top comedians dont write their jokes, claims Stewart Lee. In this shocking exposé, top journalist Rosa Silverman revealed … well, pretty much what it says in the headline. . Links to this post.
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Angry Sub-Editor: Ten words that can make you look foolish
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Sunday, August 14, 2011. Ten words that can make you look foolish. Language evolves by ordinary people coming to a tacit agreement that a certain collection of sounds means a particular thing. In that sense, there is no such thing as "correct" usage, merely consensus. I wrote a post back in June ( here. I trust we all know what "sympathy" means. "Empathy" is being increasingly us...
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Angry Sub-Editor: September 2013
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Farage and the Hitler Youth. My only picture of Farage from school. It has been reported recently that Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, sang Hitler Youth songs while in the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) at his school, Dulwich College, in 1981. Links to this post. Tuesday, September 10, 2013. A tour of the Black Museum. But Twitter doesnt kee...
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Angry Sub-Editor: A tour of the Black Museum
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Tuesday, September 10, 2013. A tour of the Black Museum. Editors of business reports are constantly turning pretentious wankery into something approaching English, in the vain hope that the readers will understand what the writer was trying to say. Sometimes, the process of disentangling a sentence reveals that the writer himself didn't know what he was trying to say. Only a handful ...
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Angry Sub-Editor: November 2013
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Thursday, November 28, 2013. Why you shouldn't put numbers in text. Read any piece of business writing, and youre bound to encounter this sort of gibberish:. Business reports typically have dozens of tables. That’s where the numbers should go. We can’t completely avoid putting numbers in the text, but it should be avoided wherever possible. Links to this post. Most read this week.
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Angry Sub-Editor: Don’t be oblique
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Saturday, May 14, 2011. Don’t be oblique. Brooker: patron saint of bile. Is a kind of modern-day saint. I bought his book The Hell Of It All. At last year’s Edinburgh festival (I didn't have. Yet Brooker irritated me with the following construction:. Freight rates remained weak/flat in West of Suez markets.". 8230;and then in an otherwise admirable piece in The Guardian. Commas are p...
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Angry Sub-Editor: August 2014
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Terms and conditions: by reading this blog you accept that all opinions expressed herein will henceforth be your opinions. Tuesday, August 19, 2014. The pay gap that might not be there. Need to prove an argument? Chuck in some statistics. Any old ones will do. Sometimes its hard to tell if a journalist is ignorant of statistics or is being deliberately misleading. Like most of us, they seldom question statistics that seem to prove what they already think they know. . Links to this post. And Another Thing...