Thursday 27 March 2008

A plural society

Hot news arrives from the Welsh Lib Dems' spokesperson on education, Kirsty Williams.

"Pupil’s (sic) results reflect ethnic and social inequalities" screams the headline.

Call me a dinosaur, but is it really asking too much to expect political parties to get the punctuation right when writing about these things?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of course, it could just be a highly personalised press release for a particularly ethnically and socially unequal individual...

David Cornock said...

It could (and I did check because you never know with the Lib Dems), but it wasn't....

hafod said...

ls it too much to expect a political journalist to spell punctuation properly?

hafod said...

ls it too much to expect a political journalist to spell punctuation properly?

David Cornock said...

Clearly it is - and that will teach me to stop throwing stones from my glasshouse. I've now corrected my typo but thanks for pointing it out Hafod!