Last week, I had the pleasure of spending an evening with my old friend and former team-mate, Barry Richards. It was a bittersweet...

A King For A Day (Un Giorno Di Regno, if you must know) is an opera by Guiseppe Verdi. I am no opera buff but in many an idle moment I...

You can’t teach people to be lazy; they either have it or they don’t. I cannot remember where I first heard that but it certainly tickled...

On Friday evening, in the company of 7.6 million other viewers, I sat down to watch the televised fourth round match of the FA Cup...

Tim Murtagh (Middlesex and Ireland) is Test cricket’s oldest current player. There is a tradition in British politics that the oldest...

“I would not open windows into men’s souls.” (Queen Elizabeth I) I confess I fail to understand the principle of ‘hate crime’. To hate...

The age-old debate – Nature v Nurture “It’s all in the jeans!” we used to say to each other out of the corner of our mouths, usually...

India deserve more than their fair share of the plaudits England v India 2018 What a series! For once the epithet ‘epic’ does not feel...

The four temperaments: phlegmatic, choleric, sanguine and melancholic. I own a whippet. There are times when I feel that she owns me....