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