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I sometimes begin articles like this one with a dictionary definition and this was not going to be an exception, until I found that dictionaries now differ when defining journalism, especially in one crucial aspect. Chambers has it that journalism … Continue reading
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‘To cut a long story short’ (Slang) Idiom, meaning to make only the final point in a long story. An elegant and cultured lady of my acquaintance, now dead, coined the inversion of that slang phrase, when describing the tendency of … Continue reading
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I’ve had this theme in my mind for some time, without any real clarity about what, actually, I’d like to say about it. So, making things up as I go along, seeing what lands below… It all started while I … Continue reading
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Christmas is coming and can’t one just tell when looking at the piles of books for sale in Waterstones and W H Smiths. In an industry where spotting the next best seller is increasingly difficult, big publishers will resort to … Continue reading
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One week on from the brutal scenes in Catalan towns and cities and this weekend sees more demonstrations. On Saturday in Madrid, the ‘white’ demonstrations and in Catalonia the demonstration of ‘the silenced’ on Sunday. Social media was abuzz yesterday … Continue reading →
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