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Why Shakespeare Would Have Written For EastEnders
20th October 2025
Last week, I wrote about the idea that some grammar rules are made to be broken- and how the real artistry of language lies not in rigid obedience to convention, but in knowing when to bend the rules to make something sound righ ...
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Why Captain Kirk Was Right...
13th October 2025
There’s a special kind of British pride in obeying rules. We love queues, we love manners, we love saying sorry when someone stands on our foot… …and we simply live for correcting other people’s grammar-and usually with more z ...
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The Things You Don't See
6th October 2025
Most people think writing is about putting words on a page. Sit down. Type. Job done. But the truth? The finished piece is only the tip of the iceberg. What you don’t see is everything beneath the surface: the false starts, ...
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Don't Mind The Gap
29th September 2025
We don’t talk enough about white space. Not the white space of empty rooms or clean canvases. But the white space on the page. The gaps. The pauses. The room to breathe. You may have noticed this in these blogs. It’s becom ...
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We (Shouldn't) Have To Talk About Content
22nd September 2025
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 ...
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Why I Believe In The Long Read
15th September 2025
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 ...
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A Proof Readers Nightmare
8th September 2025
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 ...
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The Not So Humble Bracket: A History
1st September 2025
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 ...
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The Ampersands Tale
25th August 2025
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 ...
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Their, There, They're...Homophones
18th August 2025
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 ...
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