My thanks to two Pauls for pointing out the typos that have sneaked through and remain in my new novel, A Man’s Life. One of these Paul’s – is Paul Farrington, a camera man on The Wright Stuff. Paul is a cool type. All I need to really tell you, is that he has a…
Some men play golf. Some men play football. Some men fish and some men play piano. But all men BBQ. And I mean all men. I suspect that this is something hardwired in to our DNA. A hark back to our days in the cave perhaps? In the face of women becoming ever more equal, man’s hunter…
It has been an extraordinary two weeks of sport with the Lions, Murray and the now the start of the Ashes and so I am a little saddened to catch up over the weekend on the comments of John Inverdale on Marion Bartoli, the women’s Wimbledon champion. Inverdale referenced the idea that the tennis…
I am always intrigued by the guests on the Richard Bacon Show on R5 – not just because I have known and worked with Richard a few times over many years – but more because I tried to get on to the show myself to publicize my book- how tom holland eclipsed his dad. And…
Now that the clamour has died down and the sports writers are on to the Ashes – a quick word on our brand new Wimbledon champion. I say ‘our’ to be deliberately provocative to our cousins north of the border and I will come back to this point shortly. Not one to carp – but…
