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THE REUNION

It’s good that The Reunion series is back on Radio 4 to replace Desert Island Discs. The formula is a simple one: the excellent presenter Sue McGregor convenes a group of individuals associated with an event.  Yesterday’s broadcast was about Private Eye. One assumes that Richard [...]

September 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Television is a transient art form

Although I’d happily confess to watching far more television than is good for me, I have only rarely dipped into the realms of cultured middle-class mass viewing – most particularly the seriously cutting edge, hard-hitting, political, thriller-drama series box sets such as Wired, Breaking Bad, [...]

September 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well that’s hardly news …

On my tour of newspaper websites this morning I alighted upon this report of ITV’s supposed ‘switch off’ stunt designed to encourage its viewers to go outside and take some exercise. It seems that it did not quite have the desired effect with some ITV viewers – see here – THE INDEPENDENT [...]

September 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of ageing

We all know the harsher facts of 21st Century life. Perhaps save for in some distant, Third World, geographically-or-climate-change-challenged countries, continents and regions, the civilised human world faces an innumerable series of societal issues of which ongoing medical advances and healthy [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘art’ of political correctness

For good or ill, we live in a politically-correct world. I say that because it seems to me there are both plusses and minuses to asserting the right of groups of human beings not to be discriminated against – not least that, when you get down to the bottom line and specific matters of principle [...]

August 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Olympic issues

Yesterday, purely because of circumstances after 48 hours ‘on the road’ in various places, was a bit of a personal rest day and I spent some of it dipping in and out of the television coverage of the Olympics. Here are some observations based upon what I saw – and heard on the radio – [...]

August 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Women and sport

Unlike some of my male colleagues who are making great play of the fact they won’t be watching Rio 2016 as if there is some hardship involved in their decision, I am having an Olympics-free summer with no difficulty or regrets at all – largely because I have enjoyed a totally sports-free life [...]

August 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Golfing weekend

When I was a kid my hero was Al Geiberger. Don’t ask me why. Perhaps it was his name. Then in 1967 in the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic he did an incredible thing: he shot a 59. He became forever known as Mr 59. Jim Furyk also shot a 59 and yesterday in the Travelers he bettered  this with a [...]

August 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A boxing treat

Overnight – because these things happen when you’re a senior citizen – I was wide awake (albeit lying on my back in bed) when Carl Frampton, former word super-bantamweight champion, stepped into the ring at Brookyln’s Barclay Center in New York to challenge Leo Santa Cruz for the WBA [...]

July 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time – and coming to terms with it

Yesterday the media was running a story about the results of a survey commissioned by housing finance specialist Homewise. Apart from a worrying general conclusion that over 10% of participant Over-60 retirees were dissatisfied with their lives, financial worries and/or ‘a sense of not having [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

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