Archive for category: People

Somebody buy Russell Smith an iPad    (2012.03.11)

Novelist/columnist/journalist/bon vivant Russell Smith needs to quit dramatically bemoaning that his literary career is over the next time he suffers a retinal detachment. Instead, he needs an iPad

Ben Hammersley again proves his worth    (2011.09.12)

In another context, Renaissance man Ben Hammersley’s speech to the British security intelligentsia would be called speaking truth to power

Russell Smith’s visual impairment    (2011.08.25)

Russell Smith’s retinal detachment led him to complain that possible tasks are impossible. Let’s help him out!

Wannabe Brit laments Canadian English    (2011.06.21)

Here we have what is easily the dumbest thing written about English linguistics in ’011

Russell Smith: ‘Grammar Wars’    (2011.06.10)

Russell Smith spoke to magazine editors about usage. They ought to be careful following his advice

I’m not the only one who thinks comments are harmful on news sites    (2010.12.14)

Ask Ben Hammersley: Chasing “the conversation” is “actually almost a cultural crime”

Ben Hammersley’s useful precedent    (2010.01.07)

Ben Hammersley and I agree: Marked-up documents are rare to nonexistent in the book and magazine world

Character rot    (2008.08.10)

Somebody tell Russell Smith how to Save As… in MS Word