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Why can’t I be left alone to be ancient and normal?

Every time the subject of sex is raised I know before I begin airing my opinions that I’m going to cop flak for coming across like an old fuddy-duddy. I’m therefore torn between resignedly just bowing to the inevitable, trying to deflect the incoming by admitting the charges before the [...]

February 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sporting issues …

In keeping with the widely-held in some quarters that the whole world has gone bonkers in recent times (Brexit, Trump etc.) these days there’s also plenty happening in the world of sport. Here are some examples, selected exclusively from reports in the media today: UK SPORT Yesterday UK Sport [...]

February 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brexit grumbles

Okay, let us agree that the world has gone completely mad and that we’re living in a parallel universe in the fifth dimension somewhere on the other side of the universe, inside the black hole that the Solar System was sucked into around the time that someone persuaded Prime Minister David [...]

February 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Keep up, those at the back!

It’s ironic how swiftly long-held views and perceptions – either positive or negative – can be altered if not reversed. From a personal view, if I’m being honest, my lifelong interest in cricket began in the late 1950s, reached its full bloom between about 1963 and 1993 and [...]

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

On The Road Again*

[* = with apologies to the American band Canned Heat] Saturday 18th February: Aviva Premiership Round 15: Bath Rugby v Harlequins at The Rec; Result – Bath Rugby 22 Harlequins 12: Bath Rugby 4 league points, Harlequins 0 league points. So that’s it, then. Harlequins remain one of the most [...]

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dentistry and cars

Yesterday I was in the absurd position of having to give up a day of my life in order to spend seven hours travelling to the south coast essentially to take my elderly father to a half-hour appointment at his local dentist. This state of affairs had arisen because – although we had specified to [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Whoops!

Over the last couple of years the world seems to have gradually divorced itself from rationality, order and even reality. Is it pompous to suggest that much of human development results from a clash of ‘preserving what we cherish’ (conservatism with a small ‘C’) and by lobbying, protesting [...]

February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Press and responsibility

I don’t know where we are on the second part of the Leveson Inquiry – is it going ahead or not? My impression was that – after all the shenanigans, hoo-haa, ridicule and celebrity interventions that had attached themselves to the first part – even Lord Justice Leveson had [...]

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here’s one for the girls

Following the mention of it in my colleague Derek Williams’s article yesterday I want to raise a hand in support of netball, a game that most females have played at school, if not subsequently. In fact, I still occasionally turn out for what virtually amounts to a ‘walking’ form [...]

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Time for an old chestnut

We all know that, when someone enters – or indeed re-joins – a debate with the opening words “With respect …” almost certainly they’re actually about to either damn with faint praise or else launch into a vicious rebuttal of the previous speaker’s point or position. Even allowing for [...]

February 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

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