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Sport – either as a recreation or as simply a joyful celebration of what human beings can potentially achieve given the required combination of genetic gifts, hard work, beneficial nutrition, ambition, drive and no doubt random injects of good fortune – inevitable attracts some troubling [...]

February 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Watching the modern world go by

During the course of this week – amongst other things (of course, we must not forget Brexit) – the British media has been featuring of pair of stories that some might argue have the archetypal ‘two sides’ to them and they both concern the youth of the nation. We need to dig down into [...]

February 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

Bulls-eye!

… and here’s a scribe after my own heart: Tom Peck, a sketch writer from a newspaper that is not my favourite, scores a direct hit on the Government’s Defence Secretary, as spotted overnight upon the website of – THE [...]

February 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

And yes, you couldn’t make it up!

The UK Ministry of Defence does not have a particularly good reputation – and, down through history, its predecessors likewise. It was said that British Army’s approach to strategic and tactical planning at the time of the Crimean War (1853-1856) had barely changed from time of the Battle of [...]

February 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

The subjectivity and sincerity of different views

For my sins, yesterday I happened to watch a segment of Good Morning Britain, ITV’s early morning show anchored by Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid in which some advance relish Morgan took on an elected member of the Scottish Parliament – and the Scottish Greens spokesman on Europe – named Ross [...]

January 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Straight from the hip

With women’s issues increasingly assuming mass mainstream awareness – some might say not before time – despite the occasional huffing and puffing of male Rusters, it is a welcome and positive thing to come across a piece of traditional no-nonsense opinion from a fellow female [...]

January 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Believing everything and nothing

If someone ever conducted a poll of 100-plus people beyond a certain age – who in advance had managed to satisfy the examiners they still possessed their marbles – I’d be reasonably confident that the phrase “You couldn’t make it up” would just about cover their general reaction [...]

January 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Remoaning across the land

It was as long ago as 1962 that he famously called the Daily Express “a bloody awful newspaper” but, if Prince Philip still casts his eye over the daily British press these days, my penny to a pound would be on the proposition that he would finger The Independent – now an unashamed pro-Remain [...]

January 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

Hugh McIlvanney – The Master – RIP

The news came overnight that Hugh McIlvanney had died at the age of 84. Without doubt he ranks among the all-time great sport journalists, not just those produced in the UK but anywhere in the world. Like many others I shall wait for the obituaries that will record, sum up and assess his career [...]

January 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

A salute to the superior gender!

It has become a source of mockery for some to hurl at us but here in the sports department we make no apologies at all for our various campaigns and causes. That said, we also like to think that we retain our sanity and senses of humour and fairness. Take our slightly robust attitude towards the [...]

January 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

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