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Mind your language

The words The Spectator gave the world

From Establishment to young fogey

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

When the much missed Frank Johnson (1943–2006), once editor of The Spectator, wrote in 1980 that ‘the peculiar need for something to be frightened about only seems to affect those of us who are part of the chattering classes’, I think that ‘those of us’ meant himself, and me and you, dear reader.

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