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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

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

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

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

Once more unto the breach …

I’ve been trying and failing to decide whether to begin this piece with the theme “You couldn’t make it up …” or, alternatively the truism that some things in life generally (let alone in Britain) are so ridiculous that they’re quite beyond parody. On the back of last night’s House of [...]

October 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

The horns of something, maybe …

A champion of free speech/enterprise or an interfering Nanny State? Which of those two should an ideal modern, dynamic but caring government be? It’s an aspect of politics that has always fascinated me. I used to take the simplistic view that best way to characterise politics was that (in the UK) [...]

October 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

The EU conundrum

This morning in the Daily Telegraph – and on this subject (pardon me for this) I do not know the paper’s official editorial stance – there is a feature article claiming that a significant group of Tory donors, business leaders and senior politicians are now backing the campaign to leave the [...]

October 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sometimes violence is the only way

The comedian Jackie Mason has many observations about his Jewish race and one is its lack of violence. As he puts it, if you were walking down the street and saw 4 Jewish accountants approaching  you you would not cross over to the other side. However it was not always thus as in the late 1940s [...]

October 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Such is life …

One of the aspects about modern life that most often irritates me is the sheer numbers of people that exist and then on top, of course, the knock-on effects thereof. [Having opened with that sweeping statement, I perhaps need to qualify myself. I am not addressing the issues of the global size of [...]

October 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

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