If you're a British writer/editor looking for answers to nitty-gritty questions, you're in luck: there are now several excellent online style guides available to you.Your first ports of call should be the guides of The Times, The Guardian, The Economist and the BBC.

If you want to read around the business of editorial style, there are also sites that roam around the subject of editing in amusing or stimulating ways. Be warned: most are American, and are therefore based on American use of English.

To get a real feel for the passions of dedicated copy editors, take a look at The Slot, run by Bill Walsh, a senior copy-editor on the Washington Post. Sadly, his wonderful Curmudgeon’s Stylebook is now removed, so as to not interfere with sales of a book version. (Not sure what a curmudgeon is? Look here.)

The excellent Bartelby.com site (giving online access to many works of reference) includes Fowler's King's English and William Strunk’s Elements of Style – a helpful and interesting contribution, despite being over 80 years old (and American).

Yahoo maintains a page of links to sites about English grammar, usage and style, with brief descriptions.