I don’t think there is anything particularly fashionable about February but for sure this item is seasonal, especially if we’ve had a spri...
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I have in the past warbled on about parliamentarians and golf. I particularly remember Liam Fox, who used to be a minster of something or other in one...
Read MoreAnd again! This government & golf!
On a neighbourhood street corner in Islington, London N1, a particularly fine Indian eaterie has come to town. Thirty years ago it was a popular pub, ...
Read MoreA corner fit for a Prince
Season after season for the past decade and more, a football debate has raged, or at least simmered. Who is better: Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?...
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It is over 35 years ago that CDs came along and we were told they were the future of leisurely listening to music. The vinyl LP was dead, or at least ...
Read MoreFar from a valediction for vinyl
Apparently the word ‘sock’ is derived from the Latin word soccus, which means ‘slipper’. But one imagines protective footwear ...
Read MorePutting a sock on it
And so to my third blog contemplating the dystopian fantasy that Donald Trump will regain the White House at the next US presidential election and tha...
Read MoreThe Trump/Putin threat may be in retreat?
In the 85th minute of a World Cup quarter-final last Saturday, the England captain, Harry Kane, was for the second occasion in the match given the opp...
Read MoreThey think it’s ball over…
As we head inexorably towards winter, it is pleasant to reflect on sunnier times just gone – as recently as last month, in fact. So it was that ...
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