Showing posts with label Rugby Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rugby Union. Show all posts
Monday, May 18, 2026

Farewell to M.J.K. Smith, the Harborough District's England captain

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The former England cricket captain M.J.K. "Mike" Smith died yesterday at the age of 92. He was a middle-order batsman with Leicest...
Sunday, March 01, 2026

The Joy of Six 1482

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Writing in the wake of the Gorton and Denton by-election, Hannah White says our political institutions are dangerously underprepared for a ...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

The Joy of Six 1426

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"Left to her own devices, Reeves would not be contemplating potentially highly damaging tax increases when the economy is weak. Likewis...
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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Llandow, 1950: The worst air disaster the world had seen

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The national anthems at the Wales vs England rugby international in Cardiff today were preceded by a silence for the victims of the Llandow ...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

"England are like a Mars bar in the chippy: getting battered"

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We've already heard the legend that is Allaster McKallaster commentating on Seventies football at its finest, but it turns out he's...
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Saturday, February 01, 2025

Max Wilkinson launches campaign to keep Six Nations free to air

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Embed from Getty Images Tom Kiernan. Delme Thomas. Peter Brown. Stack Stevens. Jean Gachassin. Somewhere in my heart, it is always a winter ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

The Joy of Six 1207

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Gaby Hinsliff reviews Tom Baldwin's biography of Keir Starmer: "The kind of overly simplistic working-boy-made-good stories politi...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

England v Wales at Twickenham, 1970

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I was nine when this game was played and can't claim to remember it, though I think I remember Keith Jarrett's match in 1967 - as an...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Joy of Six 1198

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Timothy Garton Ash says Poland is learning that restoring democracy is even harder than creating it. "The Tories are in arguably the w...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

The Joy of Six 1193

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Matthew Pennell uncovers the roots of the Post Office Horizon scandal: "The political origins for Horizon date back to 1994, with the ...
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Sunday, November 26, 2023

News and gossip from Peter Bone's Wellingborough

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All political eyes are turning to Wellingborough, so here are the latest reports. Peter Bone, you may recall, is currently facing a recall p...
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Sunday, October 01, 2023

Does professional rugby union have a future?

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Embed from Getty Images This summer London Irish followed Worcester and Wasps to become the third Premiership to drop out of the league bec...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Cuts to arts education cast a shadow over the future of our culture

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner, on the BBC, is not afraid to tell it how it is. Bravo! @thoroughlygood @nfmusic @mrjamesob @nicholascollon pic....
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

David Duckham 1946-2023

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Sad news. The England rugby union player David Duckham has died at the age of 76. When I was a boy you did not support England so much as s...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Martin Cooper and England rugby in the 1970s

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Embed from Getty Images I used to love watching the Five Nations, as it then was, as a boy, even in the days when we had a black-and-white...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Six of the Best 900

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"This is a time to proclaim centre-left values, and to try to unite the anti-Tory vote in key seats for a Liberal Democrat surge in 2...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Six of the Best 882

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David Warren complains that the Liberal Democrats have become an establishment party. "The North of England is set to receive £2,3...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Conservative-run Northamptonshire splashed out on luxuries as its finances collapsed

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Rushton Hall Sarah Ward reports in the Northamptonshire Telegraph: Northamptonshire County Council spent huge sums on corporate hos...
Monday, June 04, 2018

Digby Jones is a lawyer not an industrialist

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Its worth remembering that everytime Lord Digby Jones is wheeled out as one of the very few "voices of industry" in favour of #b...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

Alan Shearer: Football, Dementia and Me

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Embed from Getty Images He is a bit awkward, doesn’t have Gary Lineker’s ease and wit. But he’s serious, engaged and engaging, and proves ...