Sir, – Your Editorial "Cameron's purge" (July 17th) regrets the lack of a typeface making clear when the rhetorical device of irony is being employed.
The notorious British politician and journalist Tom Driberg proposed a new typeface, based on italics with the slope reversed, to be called “ironics”, for just this purpose.
As Driberg remarked: “There is no joke so obvious that some bloody fool won’t miss the point.” – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY,
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Cnoc an Stollaire,
Gaoth Dobhair, Co Donegal.
