The tourists, mostly from China, watched with fascination as the British pedalled their bicycles around Trafalgar square, red-faced with exertion. Most of them looked away when a tourist tried to take their photo, but some looked at the cameras expressionlessly.
“I suppose that’s the way the Chinese looked at us, when we tried to take a photograph […]
There’s often an obvious difference between the style of writing used by a native English writer and the writing style used by a non-native English writer, and this difference can be critical if you are considering hiring a writer to write a sales page, press release or article for your website.
For example, a writer who […]
TV and real-life adventurer Bear Grylls engages with his viewers in a pretty compelling way, maybe we can learn something from it.
He’ll be wading through a mangrove swamp in central America and will suddenly say something like this: `If you’re ever in a mangrove swamp keep a sharp lookout for crocs’ etc.
The inference is clear […]
Politicians who are in favour of mass immigration sometimes advocate the argument that `we (meaning the entire population) are a nation of immigrants.’
A pro-immigration member of the British government recently used this argument and I believe that it has also been used as an argument by pro-immigration politicians in the United States. But before I […]