Back in the days when I would drive the weekly carpool of 7 th grade boys, we would have a hoot. I would always stop at the Favorite Market sort of place, spark for each kid to get a Coca-Cola and a ...

Tricolons are a rhetorical flourish – a sonorous list of three concepts, often escalating in significance. The most famous is Julius Caesar's proud despatch to the Senate of Rome following his ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “He who fails to plan,” as a thousand management consultants will tell us, “is planning to fail.” This ...

No one knows exactly why tricolon works - but to see that it does, just look at leaders who don't get it Fear and loathing are the chief ingredient of the Mandelson memoirs, but there is a drizzle of ...