[https://scifglobal.com/scif-definition-what-is-a-scif/] This week’s newly learned word; skiff. It’s the pronunciation of the acronym, SCIF. It comes from the name for the room where documents are kept that must not be read elsewhere. The concept was known to me from the legal sector. There I’ve

shorn of words and strange ‘bat’ silhouette, the central imagery of the emblem for the Russian secret spying agency, GRU, responsible for assassination of Putin regime critics at home and abroad -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I remember 1984. Half The West wailed that we were going to get fried in nuclear war. The

Sometimes when you hear a word new to you, you are startled. Especially when it’s the kind of portmanteau so obviously coined by a new generation. And so this hit me when I heard someone, without any hint of irony, casually drop into conversation the word “problematise”. I simply