Showing posts with label Mike Brearley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Brearley. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Why non-fiction books need their indexes

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I'm coming across increasing numbers of new non-fiction books that lack an index. No doubt it's done to save costs, but I wonder if ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Evgeny Lebedev and Ian Botham have lowest Lords attendance, records show

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Embed from Getty Images After making our Headline of the Day Award to the Guardian , the judges added a rider saying the obvious thing to do...
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Saturday, February 08, 2025

The Joy of Six 1322

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"Like in all families, there will be differences and even outright conflicts; still, its members feel the bonds of their family resembl...
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Friday, November 29, 2024

Mike Brearley: A column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy

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A piece of unashamed hero worship from the JCPCP . You may recognise some of this from posts on this blog, but then I have always regarded o...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Fred Titmus goes to the opera

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In his latest book Turning Over the Pebbles: A Life in Cricket and the Mind , Mike Brearley writes of being an intellectual among profession...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The Joy of Six 1231

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"I was 20 the first time I was prescribed antidepressants. I had gone to the doctors during January in rainy, miserable Manchester comp...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Tony Greig: England's greatest allrounder of my lifetime?

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Who's been England's greatest allrounder in the years I have been following test cricket? They say a true allrounder has a batting a...
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Thursday, April 04, 2024

Turning Over the Pebbles: Another Mike Brearley index

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They don't just have the Hallaton Helmet in Harborough Museum. Among many other things, there's a nice little exhibition about Lady...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Podcasts: The Optimists of Nine Elms and Mike Brearley

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ITV used to broadcast Clapperboard, a film magazine programme aimed at children and introduced by Chris Kelly. As I remember it, it was bett...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Mike Brearley comes up with another fine index

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We know that Mike Brearley wider intellectual interests give rise to the best indexes going - see his On Cricket and On Form . I bought ano...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Mike Brearley on Tony Greig, cricket and psychoanalysis

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Mike Brearley is the only England cricket captain to become president of the British Psychoanalytic Society. While he, a son of liberal Nort...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Martin Amis is no Mike Brearley

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I got interested in Martin Amis's collection The Rub of Time when I saw it had an index. With his love of both high and low culture, Am...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

When Mike Brearley was about the best young batsman in England

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Embed from Getty Images History has decided that Mike Brearley was a great captain, particularly because of his effect on the 1981 Ashes ser...
Wednesday, March 02, 2022

Mike Brearley turns in another great index

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One of the charity shops had a copy of Mike Brearley's book On Form , so I have another good index to celebrate. As I said when looking ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Mike Hendrick (1948-2021)

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The death of Mike Hendrick today will not have come as a surprise to anyone who read Mike Atherton's unexpectedly moving article on the...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Test Match Special wants every boy to show house spirit

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Marking Test Match Special's 50th birthday back in 2007 I said: Though Brian Johnston died a national treasure and did seem in an excep...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Mike Brearley on the demon bowler Geoff Boycott

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Geoff Boycott bowling at the death in a world cup match? It really did happen. I once blogged my memories of the occasion - I was ther...
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Sunday, July 14, 2019

England vs Pakistan: The cricket world cup 40 years ago

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Ten years ago I wrote about my memories of watching England's Headingley victory over Pakistan in the 1979 cricket world cup : It wa...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Mike Brearley On Cricket and the joy of a good index

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I love a good index, and Mike Brearley's willingness to bring his wider intellectual interests into his cricket writing gave me high h...
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Thursday, January 10, 2019

Mike Brearley's All-Time XI

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This blog's hero picks his strongest team from the cricketers he played with or against. I'm pleased to see a place for Abdul Qa...