"This is history: if you start painting it out or get rid of it you're deceiving people about what views were prevalent in the 1930s.

"I think once children are being taught about issues of race, social issues and human rights, especially as they get to primary 6 or primary 7 [aged 10 to 12], that could definitely be the time to introduce it. It seems to me to be a perfect tool for that, saying that in the past the establishment didn't even blink an eye at having this here, but we do now." (Howard in Severin, 2013).

Jacqui Cheer, the chief constable of Cleveland, and the Association of Chief Police Officers' lead on children and youth, said society was becoming "quite intolerant" of young people in public spaces, and the public and police were too ready to label "what looks like growing up to me as antisocial behaviour".

She said police and public had to understand that antisocial behaviour "is not just being annoying or being in the wrong place at the wrong time or there's more than three of you". (Travis, 2013).

"It wasn't painful at all, it just zings a bit. It's modest. It can't be seen unless I choose to show it to someone." (Dimbleby in Deans, 2013).

A budget Christmas can mean you don't get to have those "luxury" crackers with the nail clippers in them, and it might result in your having to get the Aldi Irish cream instead of the Baileys, but ultimately, you're still watching the same rubbish telly and having the same rows as everyone else. (Cosslett, 2013d).

English literature is to be stripped out of the core English GCSE exam, leaving nothing but grammatical correctness and straitjacket language reduced to right and wrong answers. Literature is to become an optional extra, and probably not a highly regarded one, for fear it might let the imagination roam dangerously free.  (Toynbee, 2013).

Where have all our dark-skinned sisters gone? What does it mean that the only acceptable black faces are light-skinned? This is the reality of colourism. (Okereke, 2013).

Harry had asked his private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, a former soldier, for help on an essay about the Iranian embassy siege while studying at the military training academy (O'Carroll and Davies, 2013).

Reed was born to a middle-class Jewish family in Brooklyn, the son of a tax accountant and a former beauty queen. Growing up from the age of 11 on Long Island, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital for electroconvulsive therapy, intended to cure him of a general hostility to his parents and what they believed to be homosexual instincts. (Williams, 2013).

Going forward

Top of many people's hate-list is this now-ubiquitous way of saying "from now on" or "in future". It has the added sly rhetorical aim of wiping clean the slate of the past; indeed, it is a kind of incantation or threat aimed at shutting down conversation about whatever bad thing has happened. (Poole, 2013).

Oxford University's department of child and adolescent psychiatry has discovered that children who spend time in nurseries are more likely to develop behavioural and emotional problems. This will confuse and depress working parents and encourage them to drink more. (Christie, 2013).