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  Narrative versus fact We use words to tell stories. Words are a very poor medium for presenting facts, especially numbers. Our writing sho...

 “If you can’t explain it to a six-year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” Albert Einstein (attr)* Back in about 2013 I wrote a screed ...

Here in the UK, we fetishise the suffering of the English upper classes on the Western Front, as if that was all WWI was about. Yes, Waterlo...

“It’s a shipping magazine. We should put ships on the cover.” Nah I wrote this piece to mark the closure of Fairplay magazine in Novembe...

Business writers love the word ‘compared’. It’s an easy way of suggesting a relationship between two things without explaining – or som...

Business writers like to use the words ‘high’ and ‘low’ indiscriminately. Numbers can be high or low, but physical things such as ships can...

Another survey hits the press, this time from the Trades Union Congress and Everyday Sexism, telling us how badly women are treated at work....