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How we got to here

There is a certain irony – and perhaps sympathy to be extended – whenever the ‘house-of-cards’ edifice of someone’s life collapses, all the more so when this happens in an unforgiving front-of-stage spotlight of public gaze and media comment. As I beheld the weekend’s newspaper and [...]

June 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Phew!

With apologies for even mentioning it, especially in the context of the wall-to-wall, minute-by-minute, media coverage we’ve been subjected these last 24 hours, but I feel moved to provide some observations upon the result of the General Election. In no order of importance, especially since I [...]

June 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

A chance encounter

It so happened yesterday that I was due to have lunch in an Italian restaurant on Grafton Way close to Warren Street Tube station. On my way I emerged into the sunlight at Tottenham Court Road Tube station and, for no other reason that I had some time to spare, decided – instead of walking [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

It never rains but it pours

Yesterday was largely taken up with travelling to the designated medical centre for an appointment for a screening offered to me (as someone over the age of 65) by the NHS that is designed to provide an early warning sign – if any be detected – of a potential future abdominal aortic [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

The knock on the door

Several centuries ago now (in the 1970s) – I cannot even recall which time of year it was but it was during a student vacation of some kind – a pal and I, editors of our respective student magazines, pitched up at a convention in Salford on the general topic of student publications, [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

A major incident

Last night I settled in to watch the BT Sports coverage of the semi-finals of the America’s Cup challengers’ tournament, which will decide the team that eventually goes head-to-head with Oracle Team USA in the America’s Cup proper. I did this at about 7.15pm – about an hour [...]

June 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Stumbling towards the finish line

One day to go to Polling Day and it is hard not to conclude that the official duration of a General Election campaign in the UK [is it six weeks?] is the absolute maximum that any sane individual can possible stomach. It’s a coin toss as to whether the political class regards an election campaign [...]

June 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Leaving home

Last week I effectively ended my quarter of a century affiliation to Harlequins FC by not renewing my season ticket for the 2017/2018 season by the well-publicised deadline date. I shall remain a member of the club but I shall no more – well, hang on, even I cannot quite rule out ever – go down [...]

June 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

A worthy charity event

It happens in all professions – I’m thinking of a put-upon hotel manager who has to deal with the wacky demands of some jumped-up celebrity diva, a lawyer representing a client who’s denying everything despite his fingerprints being all over the stolen silverware, a head waiter facing Rust [...]

June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Election betting

When it comes to a flutter I like it to be on a live sports event . However I became rather engrossed in the 24 page General Election betting guide in the Racing Post last Thursday. I was amazed how many markets there were and to see hose football tipsters once advising you to buy Dumbarton’s [...]

June 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

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