I continue to be surprised at some of the errors that appear in publications traditionally known for their felicitous use of our language. There follow three examples I have noticed in recent days.

In her Celebrity Watch column in The Times last Friday, Caitlin Moran showed herself to be one of the growing number of writers who think that the till variation of until — a variation that often seems to be preferred by the best writers — should be spelt ’til. It should not.

The same day’s newspaper described Sir Clive Sinclair on another page as an “eclectic inventor-come-entrepreneur”.

While I accept this was possibly an accidental misspelling of a homophone (I occasionally do it with there/their), no such excuse exists for the Spectator which in a book review last week discussed how facts had been weaved into a narrative.

Finally a question. “None of them needs ever work again” wrote Richard Woods in the Sunday Times about the three young stars of the Harry Potter films. Why is it that this only sounds correct English to me if needs is changed to need (and, yes, I know none is singular) or if to is inserted between ever and work?

Can any reader help?