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In Praise of Rod Liddle and Dale Campbell-Savours

Last Sunday Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times delivered a stinging attack on scientists and their inability to agree. He particularly had in his sights Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College who has form of over-estimating deaths in bird flu, swine flu and mad cow disease. One of the problems, [...]

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

More variations upon an unfortunate sporting theme

Back in the day – I cannot recall exactly when, it was about 1980 I think – there was a sports magazine produced in London in which an article appeared imagining a future world in which taking performance enhancing drugs had long been legitimised. The sting in the tail was that main character [...]

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

You couldn’t make it up (again)

What is that old saying – “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”? It occurred to me over the weekend that, unintentionally or otherwise, the home truths are beginning to come home in spades as we enter the third [or is it the fourth?] week of the lockdown with the Government having [...]

April 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

The routine of it all

This far into the lockdown – I don’t know about you – but it seems to me that for most of us it is establishing a state of equilibrium somewhere between the positive and negative. Contrast this with the days after I first “retired” (or rather perhaps, my career left me) I used to rant on [...]

April 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

A pause for thought

Amidst the current and justifiable concerns over the plight of Coronavirus safety in care homes for the elderly – and this may not be a popular aspect to mention – there are care homes … and there are private care homes. This not a tilt at those who work in care homes because invariably in my [...]

April 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Round and round we go

Everyone I know with a pulse, never mind an ounce of common sense or an ability to think, recognises the pact with the Devil that we all make when it comes to what is proudly referred to by its supporters as “the Fourth Estate” – i.e. the press or media. We’re in the realms of the trade-off [...]

April 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

On addressing tough subjects

A fascinating aspect of the Coronavirus crisis is the light it has directed upon the humanity’s attitudes to mortality and death. This is a tricky subject because it simultaneously touches upon the fact that every living species goes about its daily business from a starting point that death is [...]

April 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Easter weekend musings

Here’s another of my reports from the fitness front line, hampered as it is slightly by the callus or growth – you’ll have to excuse my lack of medical knowledge – on the ball of my left foot and the Achilles tendon yank/chronic inflammation which has troubled me now for seven months. [...]

April 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Reflections on a sunny day

Maybe it’s because I’ve got too much time on my hands during the lockdown but I’m beginning to get irritated by both aspects of the coverage of the current crisis and some of the ironies about the world that the UK experience has highlighted. Let me give some examples. Arguably, because of [...]

April 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

From a frown to a smile

For my sins, I tuned into Dominic Raab’s press conference yesterday shortly after 5.00pm on BBC1. The charade goes on. He spouts meaningless politico-speak guff, over-rehearsed and as if on auto-pilot. Yet the hounds of Fleet Street still do likewise. They’re after a “story for [...]

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

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