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The Ashes

I really enjoy following the Ashes during these wintry nights snug under my duvet. Being a poor sleeper, waking regularly through the night, it’s a boon and I keep the radio on beside me. Early on Wednesday morning I tuned to the inevitable batting collapse. England were 62-5 with Joe Root, Ben [...]

December 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

Sickert/A Life in Art – Walker Gallery

Yesterday I travelled up to Liverpool to view the Walter Sickert exhibition at the Walker Gallery. There are two misconceptions about Sickert – that he was quintessentially English and that he was our leading post-impressionist. In fact he was born in Munich in 1860 of Danish and Irish [...]

December 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

Grinding to a halt under the eco-activist yoke

At the risk of becoming tagged as the Rust‘s unofficial motoring correspondent, today I return to the the subject of two significant threats to the quiet enjoyment of Britain’s public roads by the ordinary, average, law-abiding, private motorist – namely, cyclists and those who [...]

December 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

Soccer journo allegiance and their ways

Yesterday I attended a football lunch where I sat next to a retired sports journalist who is a Fulham fan. I have no particular allegiance to any club but we rattled off names of journos that do. They generally come to journalism supporting a club. It can be an asset in building relationships and [...]

December 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

My golfing weekend

The new DP tour is in its South African swing. Because of the Omicron variant many non-South Africans took flight and next week’s event at Leopard Creek is cancelled. There was no coverage of the South Africa Nedbank Open until the final day yesterday and no reference to it on the BBC sport [...]

December 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Standing up for what counts

Sometimes it occurs to me that, given the frequency with which contributors to this organ feel obliged to open their musings with an apology and/or ‘declaration of interest’ for being either an oldie and/or generally ‘out of touch’, our average reader might be forgiven for gaining the [...]

December 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Valley of Tears

Last Friday I watched the final episode in the present series on More4. A further series featuring the Egyptian offensive in the southern  front in the Yom Kippur  is in production. I have written  before that films made by both sides in World War Two were motivated by propaganda and this is the [...]

December 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

The (no so) Good Life – a review

Yesterday I travelled down from London in order to attend a touring performance of a new stage version of the highly-popular BBC (Bob Larbey and John Esmonde-written) television comedy sit-com The Good Life (1975- 1978) at the Chichester Festival Theatre. In all honesty I was not expecting a great [...]

December 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Bournemouth 1

You have to hand it to Scott Parker. He can surprise the opposition with training ground moves. With us in the key play-off final v Brentford, Joe Bryan’s free kick caught their keeper well off his line. Returning last night as manager of Bournemouth Parker clearly worked a number on his [...]

December 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

A bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush

Last night – upon a last-minute whim and with not a little anticipatory excitement – my wife and I went to the small-stage Minerva at the Chichester Festival Theatre for the last performance of three at the venue given by Sarah-Louise Young of her one-woman show conceived with Russell Lucas [...]

December 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

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