‘Dominic Raab is almost certainly an inveterate user of the emoticon wink’
telegraph.co.ukThe Telegraph’s own Guy Kelly and Christopher Howse, both deft wordsmiths and of very different generations, are here to conduct a weekly study of modern life.
What they like, hate, fight over and agree on may surprise you. This week, they dive into the compex world of the wink.- Christopher HowseI suspect Dominic Raab isn’t really all that good at winking.
In any case he will hardly have revived its popularity by his recent performance opposite Angela Rayner in the Commons. The problem is that successful winking depends on collusion.
If rejected, as we may assume that over the despatch box it was, it becomes an attack, or at least an embarrassment – a no-contact failed grope.Mr Raab might have imagined his wink – which his team has since said was directed at Ian Murray, the shadow Scottish Secretary – was that of a Clark Gable or a Humphrey Bogart.
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