How to create dummy text in Word
There’s a nifty little trick in Microsoft Word which enables you to generate paragraphs of dummy text using the sentence ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. In…
When the deep purple falls
‘Dappled light’ and the thing it refers to is one of my favourite words, and so I’m never happier than this time of year when you see light like the…
Kitten on the Keys
I swear to God I didn’t set this shot up. As I was sorting out some music, I came across the famous Kitten on the Keys by Zez Confrey, and…
Young classical choreographers
As some of my dancing friends reach their early thirties, I often wonder at what point the press will cease to call them ‘young’ or ‘upcoming’. But I’ve discovered that…
Exclusive claptrap
Let us rebel against poisonous academics and their preposterous claptrap of exclusion is an article by Robert Fisk about the way academics litter their disciplines with language that serves to…