Far be it for me to seem like a crusty old colonel complaining at the state of the world while sipping at his glass of Vintage Port by the fire (but I have been known to do the latter), but BBC Radio 4 did a piece on the Apostrophe Protection Society yesterday.

Bad use of the apostrophe is one of my pet hates, because, unlike bad spelling, it can change the whole sense of the sentence. It’s also dead easy to get right; one of the clearest and simplest rules of English grammar.

So I’m going to send an e-mail to its chairman, John Richards, to see how I can join.

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