Staring At God Av Simon Heffer

<p><b><i>Sing As We Go </i>is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultural history of the country from 1919 to 1939.</b><br><br>It explores and explains the politics of the period,...

That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people - politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers - who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions...

What is the difference between amend and emend, between imply and infer, and between uninterested and disinterested? When should one put owing to rather than due to? Why should the temptation to write actually, basically or at this moment in time always...