I have been away at Crawf Major’s University graduation ceremony and generally wilting in the heat of the sun and the England cricket attack. Some space for some writing now reappears, including a nice opportunity to write something for Scotland’s Sunday Post about Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream […]
My piece below on Cricket and Morality mentioned the problem of rulews crowding out principles and therefore judgement. Patrick Young of YoungMarkets replies: The deepest irony – and one of the many untruths spiralling around in the battle against finance is the myth of deregulation and principles-based regulation. 1) principles-based […]
Here is my flashing cover drive straight to the Commentator on the ever-intriguing and timely subject of cricket and morality: In earlier years it was part of the moral code of cricket that a batsman ‘walked’ (ie left the field without waiting for any formal umpire decision) when he knew […]
I have opined here on various occasions on the subject of Football Fascism, the strange way that collectivist politicians lose their minds and start meddling in private activity and private property just because it involves kicking a ball. Now we see something new: a football manager who has claimed to […]
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the murder of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. Here is the piece I wrote on the 8th anniversary. It mentions the proliferation of insane Serbian conspiracy theories somehow hinting that I was linked to the assassination and/or lobbied for the then Deputy Prime […]
Sorry not to have been here much. Sitting at home mesmerised by this. It doesn’t matter how many times you watch. It just gets better each time.
I have been away from here for a while, mustering my thoughts and surviving Christmas. Basically, I now have to work for my living. Various happy schemes and arrangments that I enjoyed when first I left Poland at the end of 2007 have fizzled out, so I find myself in […]
Now and again I have talked here about the curious idea that people ‘deserve’ agreeable (to them) outcomes. Here is a classic: Redknapp’s first meeting with Tony Fernandes, the owner, after the match, a positive one. “It keeps us in there,” Redknapp said. “If we hadn’t won today it would […]
Now and again this site alludes to my brief glory days as a chess player, or at least an avid chess follower. So yesterday I was pleased to be invited by Grandmaster Nigel Short to the 2012 London Chess Classic at Olympia. This huge event features all sorts of different […]
My various postings and pronouncements on the rights and wrongs of the UK government’s ‘threat’ to remove the diplomatic immunity of the Ecuador Embassy in London to enable J Assange to be nabbed have prompted Brian Barder to weigh in. And when Brian weighs in, he does so thoroughly. His […]
