Category: Blogalism

Great Britain’s* favourite artist — David Hockney died last Thursday aged 88. His timely demise, has caused an outpouring of love and memories from the people of his hometown Bradford to King Charles. One of mine is a story I wrote about him for The Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph in the October...

In case you are not aware, poems share some qualities of fine wines. If they are lucky enough to be kept, they change and mature as the years roll on. The lines gain wisdom as they age and somehow bend away or towards the guiding light of the verse. And so it...

There is some evidence that typing more slowly can lead to better quality work in certain contexts, particularly for creative or analytical writing, where deeper thinking, word choice, and overall sophistication benefit from a slower pace. Typing slowly using an emoji keyboard that assigns a unique visual emoji to...

The word "nice" is the first link word we use between people to give someone the nod of approval to be let it. Previously it had a bad rep as being the one of the world's most over-used and boring words – safe, functional, and remarkably dull. However, in...

A language service in the context of something like the BBC is a special part of a big broadcasting organization that makes news, programs, and information available in a specific language other than English....