Are you a dotard or a Centrist Dad? Oh do keep up|Alex Clark

The lexicon of abuse evolves with alarming speed but old favourites can still make a comebackLife is hard if you’re a pedant. When Kim Jong-un taunted Donald Trump by pronouncing that “a frightened dog barks louder”, I paused for longer than one might in the face of an approaching apocalypse to wonder whether it shouldn’t be “barks more loudly”.But that didn’t sound quite right. Then again, a verb needs an adverb, right? And on and on, while everyone els