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A la Colthard/The Ivy, Burnt Orange & Garrick Club

This time of year I develop mal de foie as I’ve had 3 consecutive long lunches. On Sunday we – my two companions being a French friend and her friend – were greeted at the Ivy In the Lanes Brighton by a woman who looking into her iPad could find no trace of our reservation. She [...]

December 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Wolves 1

A few weeks ago I predicted that – if Brighton’s goal drought continued – the Seagulls would descend into mid-table. After this defeat Brighton extended their winless run to 12 matches and are in 13th place, closer to the bottom three than the top four. Graham Potter had severe [...]

December 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Horse racing needs to take a look at itself in the mirror

As someone of limited interest in horse racing – jumping or flat – the recent British Horseracing Association disciplinary case, in which professional female jockey Bryony Frost called out Robbie Dunne for conducting a personal campaign of verbal abuse and threats against her over a period of [...]

December 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Pushing the envelope

Many years ago – I reckon in the mid 1970s – Wales were leading the All Blacks when New Zealand lock Andy Haden was seemingly fouled in a line out. Wales were penalised and the All Blacks took a crucial late lead. Later Haden confessed that this was a rehearsed ploy. I tell the story as [...]

December 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

West Side Story (2021)

Not many directors would risk remaking such a celebrated musical on stage and screen as West Side Story but Steven Spielberg has the chutzpah so to do. Does he pull it off? Yes and no. Yes, he is brilliant film maker and sensibly sticks to  the original. No, because the original score and [...]

December 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

My TV sporting weekend

I’m not the biggest fan of Formula One, regarding it as no more than a sponsored procession and lacking that essential ingredient of sport – ebb and flow. However, the publicity got the better of me and at 1.00 pm for the final Grand Prix at Abu Dhabi  I was tuned into Radio 5 and Channel [...]

December 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

More viewings

My picture fest continued in London with 2 visits to the Royal Academy and a view of the pictures on view at the Richard Green Gallery. I visited the Summer Show at the RA. In trying to reposition themselves for a younger audience, standards have dropped and most of the pictures –  garish in [...]

December 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

Party time at Number 10

One of the more surprising aspects of the current snowstorm of crises surrounding the besieged regime of Boris Johnson is that anyone finds it surprising. From his teenage years onwards, almost everyone who ever came into close contact with the present incumbent of Number 10 had him marked down as [...]

December 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: two favourites revisited.

Up in London this week I met up with old friends at the Guinea Grill and the Wolseley. The Guinea Grill is unusual as it combines an old-fashioned small pub with an expensive restaurant specialising in fine meat. One of my friends, an ex-advertising honcho who knows his wine, commented on the [...]

December 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

Modern life (Part 37)

Completely by chance, the other day I found myself ruminating upon which was the exact moment at which I began “falling off the pace” of modern life. This was against a background in which, in casual conversations over past decades, I have long used 1985 at my answer to this question because [...]

December 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

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