First Mulan was postponed, as mentioned in a blog I posted in March, just as all hell was officially breaking loose around the world, but now it’...
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This is a brief tale about one brave and determined man, Niki Lauda, who took himself to the top of the world in Formula 1 and then built a career in ...
Read MoreEven aviation giants could not quieten Lauda
If you are going to call your restaurant ‘Paradise’, then it had better be good. I mean, even in London it’s not as if there are sco...
Read MoreParadise? Well, it’s certainly bloody good
The 102nd staging of the USPGA Championship will get underway at Harding Park in San Francisco on Thursday, just the third time it has been held in Ca...
Read MoreUSPGA Championship: Its dark non-black past
I am indebted to the Financial Times for the substance of this story. It has recently advised me that last year “was one of the best years on re...
Read MoreTelling the time at a high price
Michael Connolly is an American crime writer who lives in Los Angeles, where nearly all of his books are set. There are a fair few of them, too: 34 in...
Read MoreThe three ages of Jack McEvoy
Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak (pictured on the home page), made a statement to Parliament. Yes, another one, as the Covid-19...
Read MoreCoping with Covid
So Liverpool are the Premier League champions; they have won their first league title since 1990, their first-ever of the Premier League era. Their c...
Read MoreThe end of a 30-year wait
The first book in the Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter was Last Bus to Woodstock, published in 1975. The final one was The Remorseful Day, publi...
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