I enjoyed it, actually. One feels almost obliged to have an opinion of the Olympic opening ceremony. It’s almost as if the sporting stuff is…
Month: July 2012
I haven’t got much work done this week. For the past few days, each time I sit down at the computer in my study, or…
Gore Vidal, a prominent American man of letters, sophisticated cynic, wit, and amusing controversialist, has died aged 86. I read a few of his novels,…
Some thoughts on the Olympics come to mind. Last things first … The Olympic closing ceremony defied rational criticism. Raucous, disjointed, frequently fatuous, it was…
Sports lovers everywhere may be enthralled for now by the various running, jumping and standing still events at the London Games, but in the real…
English cricket fans are in deep shock this sunny, cloudless Monday morning. The greatly anticipated battle at the Oval yesterday between the world’s best cricket…
The spirit of McCarthysim is alive and well in America. There I was thinking that the old demagogue’s risible legacy was dead, buried and banished…
If the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came to Britain for diplomatic as well as fund-raising purposes, the Grand Old Party might just as well…
One of John Terry’s more articulate teammates was asked for his views on the recent court case involving Terry’s alleged use of a racial epithet…
Not this year, then. Again. By all accounts poor Andy Murray played very well in the Wimbledon men’s final, just not very well enough to…