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Fallen Angels 20 Jul 2011 | 09:00 pm
Is my experience of nurses and nursing a uniquely unlucky one? My personal balance sheet is like this. On the plus side a friend having cancer treatment in out-patient and in-patient parts of the No...
Fish Feet 23 Jun 2011 | 08:08 pm
I really did not want to do it, but there was no choice. A voucher for Christmas and a daughter enquiring regularly when I was going to use it. There was every chance of humiliation. Just sitting in...
JOSEPH MONCURE MARCH 25 May 2011 | 11:23 pm
This is the beginning of my campaign to widen the appeal of the American poet Joseph Moncure March and to persuade the BBC to repeat its brilliant performance of his poem ‘The Set-Up.’ And before you...
LETTER TO FABIO CAPELLO 30 Mar 2011 | 03:17 am
Dear Fabio, It was good to talk on the phone and I am happy to set out what we discussed. This is too important for any kind of misunderstanding. I rang to tell you who would be the best England Ca...
Peter Jackson 7 Mar 2011 | 11:44 pm
Nothing has delighted me more this football season than to see Peter Jackson back in management. He is doing a caretaker manager job at Bradford City and anybody who responds to passion and enthusias...
JUST NINE MEALS AWAY FROM REVOLUTION 22 Feb 2011 | 09:59 pm
The essential duty of all governments is to keep the people safe and properly fed. Governments seem to love nothing better than spending vast sums on military kit which often ends up being scrapped b...
FOOTBALLING FLUKES 16 Feb 2011 | 11:30 pm
We must not be rude to poor Wayne Rooney. He is a sensitive lad and deserves our love and support and it was a magnificent goal. But yet there is something in all of us which asks that sneaky little...
TRIBUTE TO ED ZERN 9 Feb 2011 | 04:52 am
Much fine writing is inadequately known because its subject matter is not the traditional sphere of literature. There are a few exceptions. The P.G.Wodehouse golf stories are widely loved by many se...
KRYSTIAN PEARCE 2 Feb 2011 | 02:45 am
Krystian Pearce. Remember the name and follow his career. I first encountered the real KP when writing my book about League 2 football. The game was Notts County at home to Shrewsbury Town, on th...
DREAMING OF THE LADIES OF DEVON 25 Jan 2011 | 11:22 pm
The days are lengthening, the light is improving and at night I dream of the ladies of Devon, of jelly and custard and the relief felt at being able to top up the ibuprofen supplies. The Long Dist...
