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We (Shouldn't) Have To Talk About Content

22nd September

Once upon a time, writers wrote books, artists created art, and broadcasters broadcast. Simple. Clear. Noble, even. Now? We all just ‘produce content’. Yes, congratulations are in order-whether you’ve just spent a decade sl ...

Why I Believe In The Long Read

15th September

We now live in a world where ‘BREAKING NEWS!’ flashes across screens every few minutes, where punchy one-liners and bite-sized ‘content’ are served up to be skimmed and scrolled past before the kettle’s boiled. I don’t deny the ...

A Proof Readers Nightmare

8th September

If punctuation marks had personalities, the apostrophe would be the fussy old uncle at a family gathering: always around, often misunderstood, and the subject of many heated debates and the collective rolling of eyes. Because o ...

The Not So Humble Bracket: A History

1st September

Brackets. Parentheses. Call them what you will, those two little curved lines that quietly usher themselves into our sentences, pulling along an afterthought, an explanation, or sometimes just a muttered aside we weren’t brave ...

The Ampersands Tale

25th August

Some punctuation marks quietly do their job and never ask for attention. Then there’s the ampersand, that ancient squiggle with Roman roots, a brief career as the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet, and a modern life as the ...

Their, There, They're...Homophones

18th August

If you were to ask any linguist or polyglot what the most difficult language is to learn, the chances are that they would say it was Mandarin Chinese. Why? Well, it’s a tonal system for one-the meaning of a word changes depend ...

The Oxford Comma. What's That All About Then?

11th August

It’s the grammar quirk that everyone’s heard of, but fewer people can actually define, that tiny little mark of punctuation that’s caused more arguments over dinner than the bill ever did. The Oxford comma. A name that sounds ...

Why Traditional Publishing Is Losing Its Grip

4th August

Once upon a time, if you wanted to be a published writer, you had to play the game. You wrote the manuscript. You sent the letter. You waited. You got rejected. You tried again. And again. And again. You weren’t just tryi ...

A Dash Of Curiosity-The Story Of The Dash

28th July

I’ve always loved exploring the roots of punctuation. It’s a quiet, often overlooked layer of language, one that shapes how we pause, how we pace ourselves, how we hint, divert, conclude, or surprise. Each symbol carries its ow ...

Why Libraries Still Matters

21st July

There’s something deeply reassuring about the hush of a library. It’s a kind of quiet that seems to hold time itself in gentle hands, a space where the noise of the outside world politely waits at the door. Among the shelves, a ...

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