On assisted dying - including palliative care, coercion, feeling a burden, mental capacity, legal safeguards, and gaps in the Leadbeater bill: medium.com/@SnoozeInBrief…

Once you start using language like this, it's very hard to escape from it.

The OED doesn't know where the word "tantrum" comes from. I think I have a promising lead: stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/a-c…

A short and entirely non-opportunistic blog post about the legal doublet "cease and desist": stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/sto…

Do you concede defeat or victory? How big exactly is a fourfold increase? I wrestle with a couple of slightly niche points of usage and question the value of focusing on logic when deciding what's correct: stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/fol…

On VE Day in 1945, Winston Churchill scored a few small victories over the grammar nazis: stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/def…