So the latest verbal abomination from LOCOG, organising committee for ‘London 2012′, has been unleashed. This time it’s the committee’s chief executive, Paul Deighton, telling us that they’ve decided to ‘de-risk’ things by bringing in more troops. Feel better about security at the Olympics now?

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An American chief executive has kicked up a bit of a storm in a comments section by declaring that he won’t hire people who can’t pass a grammar test. His reason being that if they’re too lazy to learn good usage, they won’t be great at a company where details are everything.

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