John Simpson Architects
Fake Ancient is my rather sarky description of architecture that looks like it was designed a whole lot longer ago than it really was. But at its best it can be very impressive, and this evening I...
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Hitchens talks to Paxman
I fear that I may now be an I-may-be-about-to-die bore. In the sense that I can think of nothing which I am now doing or saying or even thinking which is not happening under the shadow of my recent...
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Marine v Spurs
I think, on balance, that I did want Spurs to win, but it would have been fun if they hadn’t. Biggest gap in League places in the FA Cup ever, apparently. There was a burst of four Spurs goals in the...
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Cricket lag will now be unavoidable
Oh dear. I’ve just discovered that this is happening, on Channel 4 TV: You don’t need a jet to screw up your sleep patterns. Interesting television at 4am will do the job just as well. I was just...
View ArticleThe greatest ever sport weekend
Seriously, I can’t remember a weekend when there’s ever been more sport of the sort that I pay attention to. This particular weekend towards the beginning of February is usually pretty good, but this...
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Lots of people watch the FA Cup Final
Today I watched the FA Cup Final on television, in which Leicester City defeated Chelsea by the momentous margin of one-nil. The one was good, though. But the reason I watched it was because it had a...
View ArticleToday Patrick and I had another conversation about World War One
We had already decided that our chat today would be about what kicked off World War One. However, as part of my homework for this, I listened again to this earlier conversation we recorded about World...
View ArticleQuins wins
There’s been all sorts of sport going on lately, what with England playing cricket against New Zealand (NZ won) and against Sri Lanka (a mismatch), and then New Zealand finding the time in between the...
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Why we have narcissistic rich guys
I like this: The job of billionaires is to live a better life, and while doing that pay for it to go from being an expensive luxury to a cheap and universal commonplace. People moan about “trickle...
View ArticleThe first Hundred game on the telly
I watched the first Hundred Cricket game earlier this evening. It was a good game. But that was because it was a good game, not because it was a hundred balls each way, if you get my meaning. Also, it...
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