Martin O'Toole Martin O'Toole

Need and Want

I spent a long time confusing two words that look like cousins and behave like strangers. Need and want.

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The Cost of a Comma

Lynne Truss sold a small fortune of books on one comma. Eats, shoots and leaves is a man with a gun.

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Martin O'Toole Martin O'Toole

The Sanitation Problem

Most organisations are managed. A few are actually run. The difference is almost never talent.

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Martin O'Toole Martin O'Toole

The line I couldn’t Use

I collect sentences the way a magpie collects buttons, with no regard for whose coat they fell off.

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