It was, so Wikipedia reliably (I guess) informs me, 1861 when the term “silly season” was first used. For ‘The Times’, work would be left to “feebler hands” when the paper’s “great men” were away shooting on a “Scotch (sic) moor” or were on a Swiss mountain.
The Blog: The silly season that isn’t
There is something of a predictability with August
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