A planetary price to pay
future to be processed in a four-weeklong editorial programme is a strange business in a world that seems to spin ever faster. It is as if Instagram were mired in treacle, electrons crawling to deliver a photo of tonight’s great dessert some weeks hence, by which time dinner guests, occasion and location will have been long forgotten. One might, in response, have recourse to matters of a somewhat weightier import and longer lifespan but, though I feel passionate about, say, misplaced gerunds and the increasing use of ‘multiple’ in place of ‘many’ in the daily papers, I suspect that linguistic pedantry will not capture the imaginations of readers of this august journal. Nor will it be much of a call
