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Mind your language

Dodginess from Tacitus to Ed Miliband

If it doesn’t remind people of Roger the Dodger or Jammie Dodgers, the word might bring to mind Alastair Campbell’s Dodgy Dossier

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

‘I hate Jammie Dodgers,’ said my husband staring disdainfully at a biscuit kindly tucked into his coffee saucer at an after-church gathering. I’m glad only I heard. But the fact is that we British generally admire dodgers. Dickens came up with a fine sobriquet when he gave John Dawkins the nickname the Artful Dodger.

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