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Mind your language

From Covid to football, the rise in ‘upticks’

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

Political commentators love talking about the optics — the way something looks to voters. Just at the moment, though, everyone seems to be talking about upticks.

Usually it is to do with local increases in coronavirus cases. But my husband, not above reading the sports pages, found that Juventus was wondering whether Cristiano Ronaldo had brought ‘a big enough uptick in their revenues’.

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