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A blazing star

Just remembered it’s November 5th, so I thought I would republish a smokey section from my contribution to the book Common Ground. My chapter – On a Monkey’s Birthday: Into the heart of Belloc’s Sussex...

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Some problems with ‘tone of voice’

Great little vox pop on the 26 website. Editor Nick Asbury asked: ‘Business language is a rich breeding ground for new buzzwords and phrases: What’s the best or worst you’ve come across recently?’ I...

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Could be foggy

Over recent years fellow 26 member Nick Asbury has drawn together a collection of weather forecasterisms called Cloudy Language. It captures those wonderfully/irritatingly peculiar phrases so beloved...

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Tis as human a little story

Today is Plain English Awareness Day. I couldn’t be more excited. The bunting is being ironed and shortly we shall be popping open the Billecart-Salmon and handing around packets of Monster Munch. If...

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Buskers told to Foxtrot Oscar

Some time I ago I wrote about a peculiar anti-busking sign by Southwark Council that employed a line from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Now a second gem from the Council’s resident team of...

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The noise of waters

I offer you three snaps from a stroll along the Regent’s Canal, just off the Roman Road in East London. Drawn by the Olympics, some barges have moored and their owners are selling bits and bobs to...

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Sorry tale

It’s been a busy time in crisis communications. From corporate tax to horsemeat in burgers, you can hardly open a newspaper without coming across yet another full-page mea culpa. These printed...

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Apostrophegeddon

Mid-Devon Council debates banning apostrophes from street signs because of the potential confusion they cause. The Apostrophe Protection Society thinks the motion is appalling, disgusting and...

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Why stories matter

The Association for Qualitative Research recently asked me to write a piece on storytelling in business for its InDepth magazine. That issue is out now, and it’s worth tracking down a copy (over here)...

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SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP

  I spent my schooldays staring the glass out of the windows. The poverty of expectation suffocated aspiration. The punitive discipline blunted everything about us. Teachers yawned their way through...

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