Anything and everything is ‘yours’ these days – it’s a relentless barrage of personalisation “Welcome aboard your 17.53 London Overground service to Stratford. Your estimated arrival time is 18.54. Please keep your personal belongings with you at all times. CCTV is in operation for your personal safety and security. Your next stop is Kew Gardens. […]

A vocabulary bereft of schmooze, schlep, shtick, klutz, spiel, maven or glitch would be much the poorer Happy Hanukah! Or should that be Chanukah? Chastened by misspelling cwtch in a previous post, I double-checked every Yiddish word – and opened a can of worms. Guardian Style prefers the former (although the latter occasionally sneaks past), […]