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The Open

I am en route for St Andrews as I write for the 150th Open at the home of golf. What a relief not to be debating and arguing over the LIV series for a few days which dispute is now being fought in the law courts. Let’s focus on the golf! The smart money is on Jordan Spieth but it’s been [...]

July 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on Wimbledon 2022

The editor gave me a wide brief to write on this year’s championship but to be “left field” – or perhaps “court” would be more appropriate. Before it began the Championship was denuded by the absence of Roger Federer and Daniel Medvedev. There was also much attention [...]

July 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected was a series made on the late 1970s and 80s which has now resurfaced on Sky Arts as an afternoon filler. I find it oddly addictive. Each episode is 30 minutes long and invariably contains a clever twist. The executive producer was John Woolf. He and his brother formed [...]

July 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Saturday TV sport

Rather like the modern type of restaurant that serves tables all morning, afternoon, evening and night – during which time service declines – the televised sport I watched yesterday got worse as it went on. The best was indubitably Ireland’s first ever rugby union victory over the All [...]

July 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Wimbledon

Daddy bought me a debenture for Wimbledon but we agreed this year that I would sell the tickets for the fortnight back to the All England Club and use the money for a holiday. I’m a fully paid-up member of the “Watch it on television” Rusters group and cannot believe the prices asked [...]

July 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Arrivederci, Boris …

On this organ – in the main – we do our best to avoid what might be described as “straight reporting” of headline news stories and/or sporting contests for a combination of three reasons. Firstly, because the mainstream Fleet Street media and others supply this ad nauseam upon a [...]

July 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

Le Tour

Yesterday I watched an enthralling 5th stage of the Tour de France which followed the route more or less of the great classic Paris-Roubaix. Much of the terrain is cobbled narrow tracks which in the one day classic leads to a exacting race as the cobbled stones shake up the riders and in the rain [...]

July 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Chums/Simon Kuper

The central thesis of Simon Kuper’s book is that a tiny caste of Oxford graduates of the 1980s took over the running of the country and the origins of Brexit are to be identified there. The clear flaws in this theory are that Nigel Farage and the 52% that voted leave were not educated there. [...]

July 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

David Hockney’s Eye/Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.

The weekend took me up to Cambridge for the opening of my college library. I used the opportunity to visit the Fitzwilliam Museum which I did not know as much as I should. There I saw one of the best curated exhibitions I have ever visited. The theme was to set David Hockney’s works alongside the [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

On musical tastes and one’s place in time

Over the past week or so – nothing to do with my editorial duties I hasten to add – I have chosen to watch specific items featuring popular (rock) music on the television for my own enlightenment and/or pleasure. I have blogged previously upon my view that, in many respects – whether we like [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

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