Margaret Marks says that the Marxist-Leninists are not giving away balloons in the German elections. I hope this is because they can’t afford them rather than for ideological reasons. While it is true that Jimmy Connolly saw in them the nemesis of the working classes, a progressive balloon vendor appears in one of my favourite…
“In contrast with Arabic words, the words of [Other Languages] appear lame, maimed, blind, deaf and leprous, and entirely bereft of a natural pattern,” writes Zaid Al-Alaya’a (via Onze Taal), who is clearly up there with Werner Georg Patel in the self-deprecatory humour stakes. I think (checking would be hard) that there’s a fairly good…
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