Mea Culpa: The germ of a pedantic idea

John Rentoul on questions of style and usage in last week’s Independent

et me start by telling myself off. I wrote last week about why Prime Minister’s Questions was going ahead in what Adam Boulton of Sky News called “the pool of germs that is the House of Commons”, and commented: “A virus isn’t a germ but we know what he meant.”

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