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...Barney Thompson is the FT’s legal correspondent Illustration by Ciaran Murphy...
...Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News, by Robert Hutton, Elliott and Thompson, RRP£9.99 From bigwigs to bombshells, this lexicon of journalese is an enjoyable romp through the newspaper...
...Newspapers on deadline often give the impression that everyone is scaling some hitherto unclimbed summit....
...Chinese newspapers, novels and TV dramas are full of laments about such problems....
...RT: The Life and Music of Richard Thompson Richard Thompson Free Reed Five discs of his live performances, covers and rarities; a historical perspective a millennium deep....
...“I would have preferred to stay unlisted,” he told Melbourne’s Age newspaper....
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