Question time
Omnishambles, smirting and amazeballs: we should embrace new words, even if they are ridiculous
With Collins inviting the public to submit entries for its latest dictionary last week, new words – or neologisms – are a hot topic at the moment. This year has been a particularly fertile one for them, starting in April with Ed Milliband’s use of omnishambles in Prime Minister’s Question Time. Since then there seems to have been an unstoppable barrage of newly-minted and mostly annoying items of vocabulary.
By Lee Williams | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 1:00 am
The Shard, #WhenIGetOlder, Robin van Persie, John Lydon: Why are they trending?
A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.
By Ellen E Jones | Notebook | Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 11:21 am
Question Time: Where art thou?
Thursday nights seems all rather lacklustre at the moment; the absence of Question Time is deeply felt by me and presumably by many others.
By Dr Sima Barmania | Arts | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 10:30 am
The AID dilemma
The Coalition government’s promise to ring fence the budget for overseas aid at 0.7% despite austerity cuts is seen by many in the development sector as a positive step, although the general British population may not be so enthused.
By Dr Sima Barmania | Notebook | Friday, 20 May 2011 at 4:45 pm
Lost in Translation: The Peddling of Party Politics
While pondering the philosophical and social turbulence that defined his generation Pulitzer prize winner Robert Frost famously said: “Poetry is what gets lost in translation”. He was talking, of course, about subtlety, about the ability to infer a suggestion that goes beyond the bullish rhetoric that surrounded him and gave raise to European fascism.
Sitting here now, [...]
By Oliver Duggan | Notebook | Monday, 28 March 2011 at 11:41 am
Most viewed
|
|
Latest from Independent journalists on Twitter