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Posts from the ‘Sport’ Category

Corona Diaries: the death of a decent man on November 13, 2020

This is an age of pop-up political parties. So welcome to the Golf Party on November 3, 2020

The Rule of Six: good news for misanthropes but bad news for grouse on September 14, 2020

The secret of England’s cricket success: going the full Alexander? on August 24, 2020

The Edge: triumph, disaster and the lessons we can all learn on August 4, 2020

Liverpool Football Club and my (great-grandfather’s) part in its victory on July 23, 2020

Lord Beefy joins the club on July 19, 2020

English universities: sink, swim or tread water? on July 17, 2020

Corona Diaries: Facemasks? It’s all about me on July 12, 2020

Life without cartoons would be unthinkable, but do we bother to think? on July 11, 2020

Lockdown Reading: reflections on a school on July 4, 2020

Corona Diaries: the new normal is a strange place on June 27, 2020

Corona Diaries: the gap that only cricket can fill on June 23, 2020

Corona Diaries: Oh to be in England, especially when you’re off games on June 14, 2020

Corona Diaries: The current normal, the new normal and a visit to the old normal on May 16, 2020

Corona Diaries: breaking out on May 15, 2020

Corona Diaries: let us open the fairways, Boris on May 8, 2020

Corona Diaries: the future is postponed on April 7, 2020

Corona Diaries: blubberous toad starts working out, shock horror on March 31, 2020

Corona Diaries – The Walking Immuno-Compromised on March 7, 2020

Cricket World Cup – it’s not just the Kiwis who are “like us” on July 16, 2019

Brexit: ten questions from a nation in crisis, (plus what we can learn from triumph and tragedy) on April 16, 2019

A sensible tweet from Donald Trump? on March 14, 2019

Postcard from Sri Lanka – the English abroad, and close encounters of a Barmy kind on November 22, 2018

Shortage, what shortage? Get ready for the ration books on July 8, 2018

Summer in Russia, winter in America and the opium of football on July 4, 2018

The Rules of Golf – a shining beacon for our new world order? on June 10, 2018

Harry and Meghan – we pulled it off again on May 20, 2018

One of us – how football can teach us to embrace immigration on May 18, 2018

2017 Retrospective Part 5: My green and pleasant land on January 3, 2018