@spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Sam Leith
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Omg. It was Tom who did that brilliant thing with Heffer I mentioned.
For the Guardian on Melissa Albert
In defence of gatekeeping
Sturgeon is fishy
This is superb. I suspect Sam's well-argued, well-written piece will find more sympathetic readers than Will Self's infamous diatribe describing Orwell as 'the supreme mediocrity' though he's making some similar points about those who follow his rules in slavishly pedantic fashion...
We now live in an age where stuff we think we own is, really, stuff to which we subscribe
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Writing: feat Georges Orwell and Weidenfeld, wise words from T S Eliot and the chance to tease my old friend Simon Heffer
A study has shown that the more receptive someone is to corporate jargon, the worse they are at their job - but the more likely they are to be promoted. @questingvole.bsky.social unpacks how, and why, that's the case.
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This, from @questingvole.bsky.social, is chock-full of good advice (which I may or may not have ignored by using a strictly unnecessary word in the foregoing).
