A week ago, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, was pretty blunt about our hopes for pretty vacations. (With apologies to the Sex Pistols.) He said th...
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Some reviews seem rather pointless these days. Of movies, for example. There are no cinemas open. Restaurant reviews are another. There is nowhere to ...
Read MoreMore nein dining than fine dining
To hold the Ryder Cup this coming September without the pubic being present would be like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson at the 2018 match in Paris: t...
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The Marylebone Cricket Club (the MCC; see the logo on the gate on home page) plays its cricket at Lord’s, named for the man who owned the land u...
Read MoreThe home of cricket: the house of Lord’s
In light of the coronavirus crisis, on Monday March 16 the government announced social-distancing restrictions. Yes, one month ago today; that’...
Read MoreHeading for a fall? Yes – but just how big will it be?
The present narrative regarding air travel is a moving one, unlike most of the industry itself, which is largely at a standstill having seen most of i...
Read MoreNo longer up in the air
This is not a particularly auspicious time to be writing a blog about film. Mostly because there aren’t any to go to see – well, not if on...
Read MoreHard times and soft sofas
The photo on the home page is of Dominic Cummings, formerly supremo of the Vote Leave campaign which ended up being victorious in the 2016 EU referend...
Read MoreThe dream of doing exactly what you want…until it’s all gone wrong
The title of Eimear McBride’s third novel is slightly misleading. Rather than Strange Hotel (the cover is shown on the home page), the noun shou...
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