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December 2025

  • Carolin Würfel

    How are you? If you’re German, like me, you might struggle to answer

    Carolin Würfel
  • Martin Parr at his Short & Sweet exhibition in 2024

    Brief letters
    How Martin Parr’s photographs inspired me

  • A collage of two pictures of ancient stones, carved with inscriptions using the Ogham alphabet.

    Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

  • Brightly colour sails on yachts in a sailing race with land in the background

    Weatherwatch
    ‘Three sheets to the wind’: how everyday phrases blew in from the sea

  • Here’s why we can’t get rid of ‘mansplaining’

  • Brief letters
    Fiscal headroom is a matter of guesswork

November 2025

  • David Young for Other lives

    Other lives
    David Young obituary

  • Stephen Burgen

    ‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future

    Stephen Burgen
  • woman reading newspaper

    Brief letters
    A final roll call for aptly named people

  • Daring Peace at Colosseum, Rome, Vatican - 28 Oct 2025Mandatory Credit: Photo by Grzegorz Galazka/SIPA/Shutterstock (15630924ad) Pope Leo XIV participated in the Ecumenical Prayer of the Christians during the closing ceremony of the International Meeting 'Daring Peace', promoted by the Community of Sant'Egidio, inside the Colosseum. Rome, 28 October 2025. Daring Peace at Colosseum, Rome, Vatican - 28 Oct 2025

    Is bird-dogging your Roman empire? Macquarie Dictionary reveals word of the year finalists

  • My kids start sentences in one language and end in another. I hope school doesn’t shrink their joyous, noisy worlds

    Shadi Khan Saif

  • Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM

  • First Dog on the Moon
    Word of the year already? Huzzah! Here’s what the latest crop of ‘young people’ words mean

  • ‘Vibe coding’ beats ‘clanker’ to be Collins dictionary’s word of the year

  • Brief letters
    Tax rises shouldn’t be taxing for Reeves

  • Pass notes
    LOL: is this the ultimate texting faux pas (and what should you use instead)?

  • Are your kids obsessed with ‘6-7’? Here’s my plan to break the spell

    Dave Schilling

October 2025

  • Matthew Cantor

    Slang terms like ‘six-seven’ have no definition. But they’re loaded with meaning

    Matthew Cantor
    Older generations are demanding explanations of the viral phrase – but slang doesn’t have to make logical sense
  • Man in front of a blank monitor in a dark room

    Today in Focus
    Boriswave, fighting-age men, cultural Marxism: how the far right is changing how we speak

    Why are the online far right so successful in shaping our political language? With Dr Robert Topinka
    Podcast24:08
  • Europe Swearing

    Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world

    Once swearwords were dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, now researchers argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked
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