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Thoughts on a great England Test victory overseas

England’s Test victory by an innings and 47 runs deservedly made the sporting headlines but still had to vie with the 1-2 defeat in soccer by Greece. The wicket at Multan was docile which made the Pakistan collapse on the fourth and fifth days all the more inexplicable. The Test will be [...]

October 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sir Michael Craig Martin/Royal Academy

Sir Michael Craig Martin is an Irish artist who trained at Yale School of Art. His schtick is pictorial art – i.e. taking images of every day items like a pencil sharpener or fork, magnifying them and depicting them in vivid colours – normally red and purple. Whilst his art begs the [...]

September 21, 2024 // 0 Comments

Cineworld

The heading above should have been Lee as I intended to see that film on its release date at the 5-00pm performance. However, on arrival at my local Cineworld, I was informed the projector had broken down and I had to go to another performance. It reminded me of the story about a reviewer who [...]

September 14, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex win in the cold

I went to Hove yesterday and left at midday as I could not take the icy wind. The championship has been book-ended with a chilly spring and autumn. Still, Sussex easily beat Glamorgan by an innings and 87 runs and now top the second division with 200 points – 37 clear of Yorkshire and 52 of [...]

September 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

Brighton and Sussex CCC top their leagues

I am still in cricket mode and one of the reasons I swerved the Brighton v Manchester United game –  the deluge being the other – was that I wanted to see how top of the table Sussex fared against third-placed Yorkshire at Scarborough. We lost on the fourth day having failed to amass [...]

August 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Manchester United 1 Fulham 0

That Fulham are neither mentioned as a top eight club, nor as a relegation candidate in the hype prior to the start of the Premiership, indicates that another midtable position is expected. Joao Pahlinha will be a great loss now that he has moved to Bayern but Emile Smith Rowe is an exciting [...]

August 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

Horace de Vere Cole

There is no better company than a real English eccentric and they do not come more eccentric than Horace de Vere Cole. From Irish aristocratic lineage, he went to Eton and Trinity College Cambridge and fought in the Boer War. He was the greatest prankster of the Edwardian age. Memorably, he [...]

August 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fascist lack of UK leadership

My late father was a keen observer of politics and life. Though I never knew him to read a newspaper he was always remarkably well informed. I had many interesting and informative conversations with him about growing up in Hackney in the 1930s. I asked him about the Fascist Marches. He replied that [...]

August 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Merry Widow/Glyndebourne

Franz Léhar’s operetta, written in 1905, is actually a musical and really marked the end of one genre  (the operetta) and beginning of another (the musical). The story is simple. Hanna Glawari (Danielle de Niese) is the rich widow from Pontevedro, in Paris for a party at the Pontevedro [...]

July 27, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sharks reach quarter finals

On Friday evening Sussex Sharks sealed a quarter final spot after beating Middlesex. They will play Lancashire Lightning at home on September 6th. A home game seemed unlikely last Thursday after Somerset beat the Sharks comfortably. A win by Somerset at Glamorgan on Friday would mean Somerset [...]

July 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

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