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In praise of the dash

October 10, 2025 0 Comments
In praise of the dash

A few weeks ago the Observer columnist and internet technology expert John Naughton – one of the few columnists left who’s still worth reading after the Guardian carelessly disowned its Sunday sister – wrote a fascinating article – fascinating to a nerd like me, at least – about that chameleon of punctuation, the dash, or […]

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‘Priorities for culture’: a pioneer Welsh Government strategy?

June 13, 2025 1 Comment
‘Priorities for culture’: a pioneer Welsh Government strategy?

The Welsh Government’s just produced another document on culture.  This one has the snappy title Priorities for culture.  In case you’re interested, there are three priorities: ‘culture brings people together’, ‘celebrating Wales as a nation of culture’ and ‘culture is resilient and sustainable.’  I can already hear you thinking: ‘but two of these aren’t priorities, […]

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In praise of indexes

November 3, 2023 0 Comments
In praise of indexes

These days librarians belong to a much-diminished profession (they’re not the only ones).  But once you’ve become a librarian there are some things that stay with you for good.  Among them is a commitment to the ideas of the collective provision of goods – as in ‘things that do good to people’ – and the […]

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