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When I signed up as an occasional contributor to this esteemed organ one of the things that persuaded me to do so was the editorial team’s determination that it should not just be a conduit for reflections upon the 21st Century from those of us who were ‘getting on a bit’, but would also [...]

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

What you allow is what you get

Right now, thanks to yesterday’s media explosion following the publication of the report by the Independent Commission appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) into systematic doping in the sport of athletics, there is no shortage of data, analysis and expert comment available for the [...]

November 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

State of limbo or stagnation?

For those of us in the UK who love the sport of rugby union these are testing times. We are but days beyond what by general consent was a brilliant and exciting Rugby World Cup in which no home country reached the quarter final (knockout) stages and the Southern Hemisphere dominated. Where are we [...]

November 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Facing reality

I had a bit of a shock to the system – and a blow to my self-image and indeed self-esteem – on Friday. A younger member of the family was doing what people of her generation do from time to time, viz. downloading onto a computer some of the thousand or so photographs that she had taken on her [...]

November 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

A little something is troubling me

Through the UK media – and only out of passing interest – I have kept myself broadly across the developing situation this week at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort in Egypt, from which the Russian aeroplane crashed (or now perhaps was blown up) not too long after take-off last weekend with the deaths [...]

November 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sometimes heat just obscures light

I like to maintain that I’m apolitical and impartial when it comes to the British political system and how it operates. On top of that, I certainly possess neither the intelligence nor the interest in the subject to understand all the undoubted complexities of the current cause celebre in the [...]

November 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s the 21st Century after all …

We’re all products of our own age, or perhaps that should be ‘… of our own lives between the ages of 18 and 24’? I like to think that I’m a liberal (with a small ‘L’) sort of a guy who embraces the proposition that we should all be able to do exactly what we want, provided of course [...]

November 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another day passes

Having begun my umpteenth and latest (rather vague) ‘fitness and dietary’ regime about two weeks ago, yesterday afternoon I forced myself to go to the gymnasium for 90 minutes at about 4.30pm. I like to think I never shy of challenging myself when it comes to such matters so I hope you will [...]

November 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Time and tide wait for no man

It was my 64th birthday yesterday, deliberately built around a splendid lunch of boeuf bourguignon, alcohol, a log fire and watching the Rugby World Cup with my father. Shortly after midday we had a visit from a local lady who had dropped in to see my parent and cracked open a bottle of champagne [...]

November 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Only saying what everyone else is thinking

At 4.00pm UK time this afternoon the Southern Hemisphere countries of Australia and New Zealand will contest the final of the 2015 Rugby World Cup at Twickenham Stadium in south-west London. As I type this I have no idea which of them will lift the William Webb Ellis trophy and in one sense it [...]

October 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

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