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Posts from the ‘Sport’ Category

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

Jordan Spieth’s America on July 24, 2017

Cameras in sports dressing rooms? Spare us, please…. on June 3, 2017

The gratuitous shaming of Tiger Woods on June 1, 2017

Thoughts on a boxing match on April 30, 2017

To hell with Andy Murray, Britain should honour mediocrities – like me on December 31, 2016

A few if only’s for 2017 – indulging the inner demagogue on December 30, 2016

My best of 2016 – yes, there were some highlights on December 29, 2016

The Ryder Cup – the moose that roared, and what will Donald say? on October 2, 2016

The joys of golf – Ryder Cup trash talk on September 29, 2016

Cricket – ideal therapy for airlines that fear their passengers on August 9, 2016