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Sandra Dunn writes from Cambridge that her A-level English teacher would have put a red line straight through my punctuation in last week’s column. I’m shocked. Not to mention confused.Sandra’s

Archaeologists in Orkney, according to our report on Thursday, have decided that Vikings were more lovers than fighters, on the basis of a striking population increase there after they paddled ashore

There’s a term of abuse that has started appearing in our pages with increasing frequency. We’ve used it recently to disparage a useless internet connection, a shop-worn TV plot, an old mobile phone

An email from Tony Pagan this week raised two points, one intentionally and one not. To start with, he wrote from Marbella to say how annoyed he gets when “only” is wrongly placed in a sentence.

Two days after the violent confrontation between police and anti-fascist demonstrators known as the Battle of Cable Street, in 1936, an unemployed labourer, Cyril Broadhead, pleaded not guilty to

A recent headline prompted an indignant email from Mike Jones of Chingford. “Your report about the late Queen’s trips on British Airways — ‘Memorabilia reveals royals’ flying habits’ — links

Thursday’s headline “Death by pager: how Mossad wrought havoc on Hezbollah” prompted an email from Keith Jenkins of the Barbican, London. “As a young sub-editor years ago, I was taught that iron is

It was, Charlotte Owen told an interviewer, “quite the journey” from doing work experience for Boris Johnson to sitting in the Lords as Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge. And it was “quite the week”

Dianne Page has written from the West Midlands to propose a society to save the adverb. She’d like to be the first member, she says, or join one if it already exists. I don’t know of such a thing, but

Antony Hurden has written from Bury St Edmunds to point out that we’ve been missing an important anniversary. As a schoolboy, he says, “every 14th October I would turn to the In Memoriam section to be