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When push comes to shove …

Sometimes in life – and in the world’s press or social media – it becomes a case of ‘You couldn’t make it up’. Over the past fortnight I’ve noticed stories on the classier newspaper websites about the prospect that, in the not too far off future, not only will women be able to [...]

April 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Equality when deserved, I say

On a day in which yet more alarming statistics have been published showing that obesity is becoming an increasingly serious issue for the nation nobody in their right mind could possibly raise an objection to women being encouraged to exercise and/or take up sport. Nevertheless, historically the [...]

April 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

An Easter Day expedition

Aviva Premiership Round 18: Franklins Gardens 27th March 2016; Northampton Saints 29 Harlequins 23. It was my lot – and pleasure – yesterday to drive in decidedly changeable weather (and wind) up to my former sister-in-law’s farm near Northampton for a quick ‘round the kitchen table’ [...]

March 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The resumption of normal service

Yesterday, because of family commitments upon this Easter weekend, I watched ‘live’ on television only parts of the back-to-back Aviva Premiership games between Saracens and Exeter Chiefs and then Worcester Warriors and London Irish – both courtesy of BT Sport whose overall coverage I think [...]

March 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

A salute of sorts to a newspaper of sorts

The abandonment of its print edition by The Independent newspaper – to a wholly digital future – is imminent. When it was first published in 1986 under Andreas Whittam Smith I was still idealistic and young enough to welcome it with open arms, pleased to encourage a brand new [...]

March 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pointing out the obvious

Sometimes you have to be tough or controversial. What happened yesterday in Belgium was a terrible terrorist outrage and it ill bodes anyone to make political points out of such a catastrophe. Still – and I must declare here I’m a Brexit supporter only for the cack-handed reason that [...]

March 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Easy pickings

About six or so years ago, I’m always a bit hazy upon these details, I received a 6 months’ driving ban for having amassed (was it a total of 12 points?) as a result of speeding offences. I don’t expect any sympathy from my readers – I admit that technically I’d probably been speeding the [...]

March 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of the future perhaps …

Yesterday I travelled to Twickenham Stadium to watch some of the Nat West School Finals Day, the culmination of a season’s worth of rugby involving schools from all over the country. It was certainly the case in times gone by that school rugby was one of the purest form of the sport. Nobody was [...]

March 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s a dog’s life, of course

Let’s leave the loonies appearing in the Jeremy Kyle Show who live on Benefits Street, smoke industrial quantities of dope, do most of their communicating with their fellow man or woman on Facebook and seem to specialise in exotic pets like pythons, lizards and terrapins … Most people I know in [...]

March 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ah well …

As usual, at the risk of sounding like a stuck record and/or being accused of teaching my grandmother to suck eggs, I take some small satisfaction in noticing the machinations of the ‘game’ played by politicians the world over are showing themselves to be almost beyond parody at the moment. I [...]

March 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

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