In a city famous for showing that life’s little problems can be resolved in a 30-minute sitcom, celebrity justice is sometimes just as swift. Blink-and-you-miss-them sentences this week for Lindsay ...

How can you create a balance between short and long sentences, and how does that change the flow of ideas in your writing? This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences ...

People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence ...

Short sentences are most effective when used rarely; continually using short sentences creates stilted, awkward prose. However, neither should you start writing paragraph-long sentences! Rather, you ...

A year ago I wrote an essay for the New York Times titled “The Short Sentence as Gospel Truth.” It argued that authors express their most important ideas or dramatic moments in the shortest sentences.

ENGLAND AND Wales lock up a lot of people—more than any European Union country. Because imprisonment keeps those who pose a danger to the public off the streets, it is popular. But an increasingly ...

ITV News Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker sat down with Lord Timpson. Words by Senior Politics Producer Lili Donlon-Mansbridge The prisons minister has told ITV News that short sentences are ...

New laws to restrict the use of short sentences and strengthen community punishments will be introduced within weeks. The measures, aimed at easing the crisis in prison places, will include a ...