Untimely cliches banned!

It seems that even the great and good who write for the Times Literary Supplement need to be brought to heel on occasion – their engine room has issued a list of words and phrases that are not to be used in that august organ:

  • iconic
  • ironically
  • carbon footprint
  • time poor
  • black/Muslim/literary community
and
  • any reference to sex beginning in 1963, in conjunction with Philip Larkin