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Banking nightmare

Yesterday in the early afternoon when I normally take a nap I thought I would see what was in my current account after a cash withdrawal. I saw a payment to John Lewis on line which I could not recall. I thought it may have been a late reference to an  earlier payment as, like many on the Rust, I [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Southern Discomfort

Most readers, I suspect, know that the Southern railway service is chaotic, less that the Ministry of Transport effectively has taken over the service and plays Govia the franchise holder a management fee. The previous rail minister Claire Perry has resigned. No reason was given but a friend said [...]

July 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sam Allardyce

Like many I’m underwhelmed by the appointment of Sam Allardyce. His best achievement was at Bolton where he worked the successful model of ageing players on short term expensive contracts but this was at a cost that has left Bolton with enormous debt and now in the third tier. He did not last [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cheltenham Festival

Yesterday I travelled from the coast to Cheltenham to see Sussex play a Royal London 50 over match v Gloucestershire in the Cheltenham Festival week. I had two other motives: I had never seen cricket at Cheltenham and most of all I wanted to see again two brother Martin and Richard I met in [...]

July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The lessons of Team Sky

Watching the careful nursing of Chris Froome up and over Joux Plan reminded me of Sir Alex Ferguson in a documentary about himself saying he keeps a photo of migrating geese in his office for it’s a perfect formation. Froome was injured the day before and the road down from the mountain was [...]

July 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Who are the stakeholders?

There was much coverage yesterday of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report that the cost of child care is putting some families below the minimum wage. This follows hard on the comments of Andrea Leadsom that because of her children she is more of a stakeholder in society than Theresa May. I found [...]

July 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The state of UK sport?

The UK can boast 5 champions in their sport: Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish, Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton and Rory McIlroy and I would argue this compares favourably with bigger countries like the USA, Germany and Brazil, or those with greater historic sporting pedigree like Australia. You might argue [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fake or Fortune

Fake or Fortune is back for a series on a peak time of 8pm on a Sunday. For an arts programme this is unusual programming and speaks volumes for its popularity and quality. A viewer is requested to submit a painting whose provenance and genuineness are in question and the presenters Fiona Bruce, [...]

July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Open

This will  be remembered as one of the the best Opens of all time certainly since the Duel of the Sun in 1977 at Turnberry between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. By Saturday it was a two horse race between the Swede who had yet to win a major – Henrik Stensen – and Phil Mickelson who [...]

July 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

MCC and the home of cricket

Although the match is tense and poised it did not seem to absorb the spectators round me who were by the afternoon chatting, sleeping, drinking or doing a crossword.  Drink is drunk in industrial quantities at cricket right from the start so on a hot humid day the consequence is fatigue. If I were [...]

July 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

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