A new children’s TV show aired for the first time last Monday: Wallykazam! I usually spend early evenings trying to lure my daughter away from the telly, but I may well make an exception for this. Here’s why.

My younger son wanted a Watford FC replica shirt for Christmas. As young boys tend to do, he’s meddled with supporting the big clubs (I’ve rather lost count) but has, it seems, eventually settled on a side that, if not quite local, is at least located in the same county as us.

I hadn’t heard of the National Character Area (NCA) profiles until last year. There are 159 of them, and they describe in some detail areas of England that ‘share similar landscape characteristics, and follow natural lines in the landscape rather than administrative boundaries’.

Have you ever had to pay a parking fine because you didn’t see the sign? It happened to me the other day in Putney car park. Gosh, I was cross.

Redacting documents – obscuring elements for legal reasons, or because they’re commercially sensitive – is a tricky business. Here are a couple of cautionary tales.

Collins, as in the dictionary publishers, have come up with a novel twist on the standard (and perhaps rather hackneyed) ‘new words since our last edition’ formula as a way of attracting media attention (and a mention on the Accuracy Matters website, for that matter).

There was an interesting article in the news this week about whether teachers should correct pupils’ spelling mistakes.

I’m quite excited about the redevelopment of London’s King’s Cross station, and to judge from the number of fellow travellers visiting the Network Rail exhibition stand over the last few days I’m not the only one.

Lewis Moody, the ex-England rugby union captain, previewing this weekend’s finale to the Six Nations thinks that, if Wales win against France and thereby claim their third Grand Slam in eight years, ‘by any token it would be an incredible feat’. Let’s examine that claim.