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Informationen zum Autor Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include: Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle , Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell , Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII , Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England , Vaughan Williams , Strictly English , A Short History of Power , Simply English and High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain . In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. Klappentext In a career of more than 25 years in Fleet Street Simon Heffer has written columns for and held senior positions on the Daily Mail , The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator . It was while associate editor of The Daily Telegraph that his emails to staff lamenting their lapses in English became an internet cult, and led to the writing of this book. He read English at Cambridge and holds a PhD from that university in history. His previous books include: Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle , Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell , Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England and Vaughan Williams . Zusammenfassung The author's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily Telegraph" about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over the years. In this book, he makes an impassioned case for an end to the sloppiness that has become such a hallmark of everyday speech and writing.
