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Learning curves: get your hooks into the lingo like a good hooker
“Hook” is a word oft heard in media companies. “What’s the hook to this story?” an editor might ask a reporter, meaning: what about the article is relevant, topical, timeous and of wide general public interest?
The gory bells have rung for a leader with balls of iron
Late former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been widely lauded this week for his contribution to world peace.
Ketchup session: to chow with the chinas or chuck tomatoes at the shogun?
One of my favourite lame jokes (and I do so love lame jokes) involves a small tomato with short legs who is lagging behind the rest of his family as they make their way to a hot-dog stall.
A cultured look at cults and cultivators
My friend and colleague Jennifer Platt, who is books editor for the Sunday Times, wrote a column recently about her obsession with cults and books about cults. There do seem to be rather a lot of these about, mainly written by those who have escaped the clutches of cultists. (Incidentally, Jen and I are both members of the air fryer cult, but that’s a different kettle of crispy fish entirely.
Plant-protein flesh-point: one man’s pie is another woman’s cutlet
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
Stick your neck out for these rock ’n rollers, you awkward turtle
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
Are you hectic with cold sweats? If not, it’s a mutation at work
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
Stunt in the hand: to watch a big leap over writer’s block, just say the word
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
SUE DE GROOT | P*ss off with that kiss-off, and if that’s giving lip, snog my a*s!
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
Memory to myth: that foxy salesman let the djinn out of the bottle
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
