What's in a word, or two or three? Lawyers for Luke Littler (don't you love the alliteration), having trademarked 'the Nuke', 'Luke Littler', and 'Luke the Nuke Littler', have allegedly started action to prevent a bar opening in his home town of Warrington under the name 'Nukes Sports Bar'.
If you are a pedant like me, you survive on occasional small triumphs. So imagine my joy in seeing a promotion by the Royal Academy of an interview on 'Whistler's Women', where the narrative talks of Whistler's partner as 'his principle model'. In true savant style, I screenshotted the extract and posted it on Twitter, tagging the RA.
Answer after over two weeks.....is zilch. The old Academicians would turn in their graves.
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I had vowed not to return to these, but so much happens day-to-day in the miscellany of life that it seems a shame not to jot anything down. One change from previous format: nothing party political.
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Worth returning just for this. In a pub in Kentish Town, tried out for the first time. Really a bar shoe-horned into a former proper pub. A search for at least one hand-pulled ale. There is one. Just one, the house bitter. Bar staff member (gender reference not appropriate) approaches:
'Two pints of bitter, please', I ask.