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Mind your language / ‘Both things can be true’: The creep of an annoying cliché

‘It’s lunchtime and it’s raining. Both things can be true at the same time,’ said my husband, putting on the face that makes him look like...

04.03.2026 10

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Mind your language / ‘Both things can be true’: The creep of an annoying cliché

‘It’s lunchtime and it’s raining. Both things can be true at the same time,’ said my husband, putting on the face that makes him look like...

04.03.2026 20

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Mind your language / Do only bitches bitch?

‘How many letters?’ asked my husband, as though it were a crossword we were doing together. ‘Five,’ I replied. ‘Begins in b, ends in h.’...

15.02.2026 100

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Mind your language / Is Angela Rayner ‘humble’?

11.09.2025 5

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Notes on... / What does your name say about you?

26.02.2025 10

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Notes on... / What does your name say about you?

26.02.2025 5

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Mind your language / The Twelve Hates of Christmas

I have set my husband a Christmas game. He wins a small chocolate sprout each time he spots a word in my list of Twelve Days of Christmas Hates. He...

22.12.2024 10

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