All the same, there does seem to be, to use the modish phrase, a glass ceiling for women.

ECONOMIST: Mona Karff

But two modish economic ideas, which imply that high-tech industries create special antitrust worries, have also attracted the interest of antitrust people.

ECONOMIST: Beleaguered Microsoft

In setting the scene Paul skewers the modish restaurant by adopting a tone that is slightly too sharp to be gentle mocking.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

In style, there is nothing modish or up to the minute about Davies, nothing to seem stale or dated in a decade or two.

ECONOMIST: Robertson Davies

The hipsters' fondness for all things twee and retro - baking cupcakes, riding fixed-wheel bikes, using Polaroid cameras instead of digital - meant Christmas jumpers could be re-cast as modish.

BBC: The rise of ironic Christmas jumpers

In later years, when he and his colleagues had pushed climate change, and in particular greenhouse warming, on to the agenda, people keen to ensure a lack of action made much of his about-face over cooling, preferring to accuse him of modish inconsistency than to see him as someone who had worked to improve his models, and as a result had changed his mind.

ECONOMIST: Steve Schneider