Our Stiff Upper Lip
Ian Hislop's programme on The Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain - began last evening and was very disappointing. After a run-through of history of the 18th…
Tolstoy – a lesson in diction
For those of us reading War and Peace as part of 'Team Tolstoy' on dovegreyreader's blog, here's a little lesson in diction, as powerful as it is short. It was…