Walter Nash

Words & wisdom: the throne of denmark question

Walter Nash refelcts on the impossibility of expressing reality without shaping it.

Kind words and corrupt thinking

There may be good social excuses for a euphemism, says Walter Nash, but there are grotesque and dangerous inventions that stand at a cool distance from harsh facts.

Words & Wisdom: Negatory and the ‘middling negative’

In the first of a series of essays Walter Nash takes a sideways, but positive, view of the English negative.