Through the Language Glass

People in the US have had some fairly urgent things to think about in the last couple of weeks, so it's likely that you haven't heard much about a story that has dominated the news here in the UK. This is the appalling case of the 'Crossbow Cannibal', a forty-year-old postgraduate student of criminology, whose area of research was Jack the Ripper, but whose interest in his subject turns out to have been not entirely academic. Read More