Prodigies such as Emma Raducanu spend thousands of hours honing their skills, but could anyone deliver a world-class performance with enough dedication?At the end of every edition of his children’s TV show Record Breakers, Roy Castle used to sing: “If …
Malfeasance: Biden decried it in Afghanistan – but what does it mean?
Entering English from French, ‘malfeasance’ tends to describe misdeeds in public office – such as those by US presidentsIn his speech marking the end of the Afghanistan war, begun soon after the 9/11 attacks on 11 September 20 years ago, Joe Biden comp…
‘Chipageddon’: how a global tech crisis came to sound quite tasty
First chickens, and now a worldwide shortage of microprocessors … the word ‘chip’ is the latest word to gain an Armageddon flavourAs if there weren’t enough disasters happening simultaneously, people are now speaking of the present “chipageddon”: the w…