As a cricket chairman, one of the most thought-provoking
events of the last few weeks, has been the racism scandal at Yorkshire. Is
there an inherent racism problem in the game and can people be forgiven for
remarks allegedly made a decade ago?
My opinion, which is not necessary the right one, is that if
someone can see what they were in the past and have learnt from it, they should
be able to move on. We are evolving all the time and many ...
As I looked around the dejected faces of the cricket club on Sunday night, I felt sad for the young people feeling what I did 31 years ago after a dramatic night in Turin. The sick part of me also felt glad that these people should be subjected to the misery I once endured. But mostly, I felt empathy.
I felt miserable too, but like many of my age group, I am
battle hardened, so it didn’t last more than an hour. I have witnessed no fewer
...
If the ageing process, Brexit and Covid have taught me one
thing, it’s that making impulsive assumptions can result in public shaming and
not learning about the devil in the detail. It also allows people like Toby
Young, Julia Hartley Brewer and Laurence Fox to make money for being the voices
of lunatic reason.
So, with that in mind, I decided to not pay much attention to the outrage directed at footballers who had broken Covid-19 ...
It is always difficult to write a music blog as I am not a music critic working for MOJO or the NME but what I have liked doing over the last decade is listening to as much music as I can, rather than becoming entrenched in one genre like someone saying 'You can't beat a good pint of Fosters'.
I first heard Dai and the Ramblers late one stormy night on Radio 6 whilst I was driving down the A303 and I was immediately hooked to the song ...
It was nice to see Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott reach number one in the album charts this week, even though it is possibly becauses us older folk are more likely to pay for music, whilst our offspring simply nick it.
I have been a fan of Heaton's for years (over 30 years actually) partly because of his ability to stick to his roots whilst others have succumbed to money but mainly because of his witty lyrics often featuring sinister tales ...
