For 341 years, the poets laureate of Britain have all been male. That just changed with the appointment of Britain’s new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Her work has been described as “dealing with the darkest turmoil and the lightest minutiae of...
Helen in Las Vegas, originally from Glasgow, grew up saying she had taken the scunner to someone when a crush suddenly curdled into disgust, irritation, and even a little fear. As a noun, scunner can mean revulsion or loathing, and a miserable...