I&#x27;ve just spent five minutes thinking, &quot;what&#x27;s wrong with this writing style?&quot; I still don&#x27;t know.  As a later poster pointed out, perhaps it is a peculiarly British style, which just doesn&#x27;t register as abnormal to me.<p>There are also certain things which grate rather badly with me when reading US &quot;style&quot; too.<p>For example, &quot;Recall our previous conversation....&quot; Use of recall in this way feels so impolite and demanding. Normal use for me would be, &quot;You may recall our previous conversation....&quot;<p>Anyway, this is not a bashing session, I just genuinely didn&#x27;t find anything odd about El Reg&#x27;s writing style.