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Coverage of war over the years

I used to enjoy discussing with my late father how World War Two was covered. His father would go to the cinema twice weekly for Pathe News so the newsreel and the commentary of Bob Danvers Walker were vital. Winston Churchill would deliver his radio message in that re-assuring resonant voice [...]

March 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Headline/Daily Star

Every so often a tabloid headline is right “on the money”. I recall Gotcha during the Falkland War and Up Yours Delors.    In the Daily Star this headline appeared. It made me laugh out loud. Of course the brothers Klitschko could not withstand a Russian tank, but reducing the conflict [...]

March 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Saturday sport – rugby and boxing

Yesterday was one for sports-following – in my case, the resumption of the Six Nations tournament and then, by chance, a boxing bout I joined via radio. For the rugby union internationals – Scotland against France at Murrayfield and then England against Wales at Twickenham – I made an [...]

February 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

Ukraine war: a heavyweight Brit broadcaster weighs in

Since the rogue President Putin ordered his armed forces to invade the Ukraine last week our television screens, radio airwaves, newspaper websites and social media outlets have been filled with wall-to-wall coverage of its progress and the reactions of governments and peoples around the world. [...]

February 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

The invasion of Ukraine – the chess angle

Yesterday was spent in front of the television watching events in Ukraine unfurl. I opted for Sky News. The adverts were irritating – and the photo footage repeated – but they pulled in the important personalities, starting with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, and were across the big [...]

February 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

Defence: what’s it really for, exactly?

It seems to me that more than anything – never mind the current Russian invasion of the Ukraine, let’s go back and reference its seizing of the Crimean Peninsular in 2014 in furtherance of President Putin’s loony attitude to Euro-Russian geo-politics and power-balancing – the vexing subject [...]

February 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

Bamber Gascoigne

I met Bamber Gascoigne twice in my life: the first was when I was first reserve of our Magdalene College University Challenge team. Gascoigne had attended  the same college and spoke to us after an ignominious defeat by Hertford Oxford. He was a courteous  man and a clever one too as he composed [...]

February 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Whatever happened to “customer service”?

One of the banes of modern life has been the deterioration in customer service that that has bedevilled the United Kingdom over the last three decades. I don’t know who or what deserves to field most of the blame for this – sub-contracted call centres situated in all four corners of the Earth, [...]

February 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Storm Eunice passes through

Living – as I now do – some distance away from any metropolis that matters one has to get used to the complicating factors that come with the territory – both literal and metaphorical. There exists a degree of “community feel” in the locality. Somebody began a WhatsApp group at the [...]

February 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the Champions League

The most significant aspect of the round of 16 of the Champions League partially played out this week was the dominance of the English teams – Manchester City winning 5-0 at Sporting Lisbon and Liverpool 2-0 at Inter. Barcelona, after 17 consecutive seasons in the Champions League, played [...]

February 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

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