18. Word of the week: good

Word of the Week

Apostrophe(uh-POSS-tro-fee)A punctuation mark used in writing. It has two jobs:To show where one or more letters have been left out, as in shortening ‘do not’ to  ‘don’t.’To show ownership, as in the cat’s whiskers.Marcie’s face turned red when she left the apostrophe out of don’t while writing on the whiteboard

18. Word of the week: good

Has the Government gotten used to it or is it clumsy? Is getting ready a narrative that works or no way? And António Costa? Is he a handsome Prime Minister?

Portrait of the week

Home Teachers went on strike. Train drivers and railway workers went on strike for two days, with a day’s rest in between. Civil servants belonging to the Public and Commercial Services Union went on strike, including some who work for Border Force. Firemen voted to go on strike. Nurses and ambulance staff decided to go on strike next week. During a visit to Darlington, Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, told an audience of health workers: ‘I wou…