This is the time of the September Equinox, which was once of great importance to farmers at harvest time. Bringing in the harvest before the […]
What is often termed Business / Corporate English has become little more than dead code, a lacklustre collection of weak and overused phrases stretched unevenly […]
The Nigerian elections have shown a rare example of an African country playing (mostly) by the democratic rules, often seen as an essential condition for […]
Early this morning, in our house in the Tarn-et-Garonne, in southwest France, I awoke in the darkness. Not exactly unusual for me these days but […]
A hyperbaton is when you put words in an order that seems or sounds wrong, which is difficult to do with confidence in English. When […]
Phase out animal agriculture? It’s the quickest and only intelligent way to reverse climate change. But is it the easiest way? There seem to be […]
I’m against Covid. I’ve had a primary, secondary and a booster. I had a reaction the first time that made me regret the vaccination for […]
Notwithstanding the Covid-19 pandemic and its tragic impacts, the key challenge for the next few years for climate change and the environment is to align […]
Words are the least understood part of that crowded, undisciplined and noisy group of ill-fitting elements that together constitute communications. In fact, words often get […]
African countries on average spend more on interest payments on their debt than on their public health programmes. But Africa’s overall level of debt is […]