Here's another snappy catchphrase for the rest of us: “Duck and cover"

What is the quality of boyhood that we would find admirable in this earnest 68-year-old and near teetotal man?

Two years after applying, my wife and I got a call saying a free allotment plot had come up. But digging and weeding were only half the challenge

The icons aren't just for kids: over 90 per cent of the world’s internet users make use of emojis on social media

“Rich” is always somebody else

"Here, I thought, is a whole subcategory of vocabulary"

"An influential translator can be the midwife to a whole canon or, for that matter, a whole national literature"

"I want to say we need a liberalism worthy of the name. But before that, we need a name worthy of the concept"

"The cleverest people in the world have worked on Voynich for centuries, and it still defiantly resists interpretation"

The building blocks of Trump-speak are not nouns and verbs