This government’s ‘legacy’ will be the demise of plain English

The Olympic Development Authority has replaced the word ‘future’ with the word ‘legacy’, presumably using the useful ‘edit / replace’ tool on Microsoft Word.

The Hackney Post

Introducing Hackney’s local paper for the twenty-first century

Our deafening silence on HIV in the UK

“When you tell peopleyou have HIV, you kind of think everyone is going to be ok, because it’s the 21st century. That’s actually not the case.”

An apprenticeship in spin

A press release I read today suggests that we journalists aren’t doing our job.

In praise of student journalism

I spent last night at the Guardian Student Media Awards in Shoreditch. Sadly, our student newspaper Varsity didn’t scoop the ‘Best Newspaper’ award it was nominated for, but it was a fantastic evening, and almost worth going for the free bar and canapés alone.
Introducing the awards, Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger said that with graduate trainee [...]