Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to 'get a life' by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.

Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying hello, lovely day, and so on.