Monthly Archives: July 2009

The death of Sir Bobby Robson was met with a real sense of loss mingled with warmth and affection at Edbaston today, and the half-time singing of the song that became the Italia ’90 World Cup anthem Nessun Dorma was … Continue reading →

7 Aussie wickets before lunch. I’ll raise a glass to that! (Did I mention I was going to the Test match today?)

Danny Finkelstein shows how ‘with it’ he is, and really tuned in to popular culture. He reveals what Bob Dylan said in response to the ‘Judas’ heckler at Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1966. Not exactly news though, Danny.

Yesterday Mike Smithson speculated that David Cameron may actually be the loser in a televised debate with Gordon Brown. I’m not so sure. Cameron is a pretty smooth cookie (not to be confused with ‘a pretty straight kind of guy’ … Continue reading →

Tom Harris posts his summer itunes playlist. Well, here’s part of a playlist I compiled for a journey last week (and to listen to whilst the rain falls gently on Edgbaston tomorrow).

In the wake of the 1997 General Election victory there were those deluded souls in the Labour Party who thought Blair would immediately throw off the woolly sheep’s clothing and bare his fangs of socialism. They believed it partly because … Continue reading →

I’ve been pestered all day by the Third 4th Estate. Apparently my piece on breaking the Edgbaston drinks ban was picked up by the local press in the shape of The Birmingham Post & Mail and the Sunday Mercury (The … Continue reading →

Less than a year after two Tory councillors were forced to stand down for running a brothel, we now have two more arrested for allegedly robbing a taxi driver. They are the councillor who ‘oversees the granting of licences to … Continue reading →

There was a piece of advice for hecklers in The Guardian at the Edinburgh Festival yesterday which pointed out that you heckle at your peril, because the heckler never wins. The audience have not paid to see you, so unless … Continue reading →

Hopi Sen asks whether Nick Clegg will disown his sordid PPC for Birmingham Ladywood. As he says, if Clegg thinks… “We don’t need to wait for months for a report to tell us what to do. We just need to … Continue reading →