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England v Pakistan: No spectators and all the time in the world
The first test match between England and Pakistan could be a terrible disappointment, for England fan me. But, as I write this now, it could get special. England are chasing 277, I think it is, in the...
View ArticleWhy I disagree with Alice Smith about “the BLM movement”
Alice Smith tweets: “The BLM movement is totally different from the BLM organisation.” Yes, just the same way that the Marxist movement is different from Marxist organisations. And your point is?...
View ArticleHome cinema is just so much better than regular cinema
And David Burge tweets one of the many ways in which this is true: I’ll go back to movie theaters when they install pause & rewind buttons. To be boringly pedantic, this wouldn’t make things any...
View ArticleNo sport and strange sport
It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that one of the weirdest features of what you might describe as “classic Lockdown”, Lockdown when Lockdown was at its most Lockeddown, was the complete absence...
View ArticleJulia Hartley-Brewer on ducking auto-editing on her ducking iPhone
Indeed: Why does my iPhone always think I’m trying to type “ducking” when I’m actually trying to type “ducking” and no matter how many times I type “ducking” it still auto-edits it to “ducking” every...
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The Tower Hotel could benefit from Magic Paint
One of London’s more impressive architectural survivals from the Brutalist era is this building: That’s the Tower Hotel, with Tower Bridge in the foreground. I am fond of this edifice, not only because...
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Cricket contrasts
This is remarkable: UNBELIEVABLE fielding from Nicholas Pooran! That is absolutely sensational. The best save in IPL history? #Dream11IPL Watch live https://t.co/o2UhEk00z4 Scorecard...
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Charles Dance in Goswell Road
Back in 2016, a friend was regularly working in the Angel area, and I would often meet up with her at the Angel Tube, there to repair to a local coffee and cakes parlour. When we parted, I would often...
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Colourful buildings in Leyton High Road
Memo to self, check this out: This is the work of Camille Walala (who also did all this), and it’s Walala Parade. The Londonist reporter is very right when he put, right underneath the above photo,...
View ArticleA crazy sports day
I don’t usually set the video to record MOTD, or for that matter MOTD2, but I’ll have to this evening. First it was Leicester, unbeaten until today, who were today beaten 0-3 at home by West Ham, but...
View ArticleA techno-prophecy from one of Rebus’s drinking pals
While channel hopping of an evening, I recently realised that episodes of the television version of Rebus are now being shown again. Having already read most of the books, I have found these Rebus TV...
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How the old version of New Scotland Yard used to look before they knocked it...
In that posting I did yesterday, it would have made sense to have included also a photo of how the old New Scotland Yard building used to look, given that I showed photos of how the place where it...
View ArticleBig sport day
Two IPL games have been happening, both disappointing. That being twenty-overs-plays-twenty-overs cricket, in India. Both games started out with low scores by the teams batting first, followed by...
View ArticleI’m going to bed now
I had planned to stay up all night, to see whether I get the President of the USA that (see below) I want. But, I’m tired, and it already (at 11pm UK time) looks like Trump has won. Early impressions...
View ArticleI’m now watching the election coverage by Newsmax TV
It’s 3 am on Wednesday morning, and yes, I am up again. Truth is, I did sleep a bit, but my actual night’s sleep has been slipping forwards, and it hasn’t actually begun yet. Originally I was tracking...
View ArticleReflections on how an abundance of news every day has transformed American...
This abundance, brought into being by the internet, means that you don’t have to read or listen to anything you don’t want to read or listen to. Whatever view you have of the world and what is...
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A new Fulham stand (and a very good Spurs win)
Even as I write, they are showing a Premier League soccer game on the telly, and more to the point, at the BBC Website. Which means I can go back and watch goals without all the tedium in between, and...
View ArticleJohn 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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