The Sheaf

Will Robbins, editor-in-chief of the University of Saskatchewan's newspaper The Sheaf, has resigned following publication of a cartoon featuring Jesus and a pig. The cartoon, titled Capitalist Piglet, was published on 2nd March. The University has censured the newspaper and demanded an apology.

Balderdash & Piffle

Balderdash & Piffle, a BBC2 TV series about the etymologies of unusual words from the Oxford English Dictionary, accompanied by appeals for evidence of antedating, was broadcast in January. Although the whole series was quirky and interesting, most fascinating for me was Germaine Greer's exploration of one word in particular (The C-Words, 30th January), in which she unfortunately reversed her earlier calls for the word to be normalised.