Ignore the ‘good grammar’ crowd and your prose will be better for it
From our UK edition
'Few things,' says Toby Young, 'are more likely to provoke the disapproval of the bien-pensant left than criticising someone’s grammar.' I haven’t consulted all my colleagues in the Metropolitan Media branch of the bien-pensant left so speak for myself. Young is wrong. I have no objection to criticising someone else’s grammar, and I’m a zealot for English language teaching in schools. What I won’t do is cede that field to people whose complaints are unwarranted and – on matters of fact, not opinion - untrue. That category includes purported traditionalists who have secured the undeserved attention of Michael Gove, lord chancellor and former education secretary.
