We'd like to try you in a new role, preferably in another company
Euphemisms for getting fired can be preposterous and management consultants are the worst
Source: thetimes.co.uk
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Countdown star brings live show to Theatre Royal Winchester
Fans of the TV gameshow, Countdown, will be in for a treat when the Queen of Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent, visits the Theatre Royal Winchester.
Source: hampshirechronicle.co.uk
No disrespect but... Susie Dent shares words public want axed
"Going forward" tops the list of words and phrases people want "banished" from the dictionary.
Source: bbc.co.uk
In the wake of her 20-year marriage split, Countdown veteran Susie Dent has been reassessing life
Susie Dent says that at age 57 she feels asexual and invisible at the moment. The English author split from her husband, schoolteacher Paul Atkins last year.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Buy Countdown and Gogglebox stars' stage show tickets
Countdown's Susie Dent and Celebrity Gogglebox star Gyles Brandreth are starring in a UK stage show, with tickets available now,
Source: digitalspy.com
Susie Dent: Amid much curfuggle, words – and games like Wordle – can help to bring people together
“Hell is a-popping”, to use a 19th-century US description of an unravelling and chaotic state of affairs.
Source: scotsman.com
Gyles Brandreth: how Charles Dickens made me a man
In a new TV film, the actor and broadcaster reveals what the great author has taught him about life, work and happiness
Source: telegraph.co.uk
The One Show's Alex Jones has furniture mishap in show return
The One Show's Alex Jones returned to the show from maternity yesterday, only to break the sofa on set just minutes into the episode.
Source: digitalspy.com
Podcasts of the week: sleep, fraud and lexophilia
Cassell’s Book of Birds makes a great Boring Book for Bedtime I love the feeling of drifting off to sleep while listening to a podcast, said Nicholas Alexander in The Guardian. “Sentences swim around you, stripped of their meaning. Words collect in little incoherent groups at the edge of consciousness, as you tiptoe a tightrope on the outskirts of sleep.” In the BBC Sounds “comedy-horror” podcast The Sink: A Sleep Aid, writer Natasha Hodgson, producer Andy Goddard and composer David ...
Source: theweek.co.uk