wordsmithery

For somebody so concerned with wordsmithery - its Burchill, not Birchill.

"Bling-bling" has entered his vocabulary with a bang, but he likes his own wordsmithery, too.

Its tutors lay on highly acclaimed courses for novelists, poets, script and screenwriters and playwrights, while those new to wordsmithery can take a "Starting to Write" course.

The queen of wordsmithery, the grande dame of cackle, the guru of hackle raising, will be impoverishing my life by putting away her NUJ pen.

It was a term coined by Ed Miliband - not a person one instantly associates with wordsmithery - while in conversation with John Humphrys on the Today Programme.