The Oldie
Breaking the car habit
Car Sick, solutions for our car-addicted culture, Lynn Sloman, Green Books, £10.95. Post war transport policy of both main political ...
Book review: Andrew Hosken’s Nothing like a dame
Andrew Hosken, Nothing like a dame, the scandals of Shirley Porter 372 pages, Granta, £20 This is not a normal ...
DVD review: how london’s transport changed from the 1950s to the 1960s
The fantastic thing about this selection of three films is the discovery of just how much changed in the decade ...
Forza Italia?
Review of Not a Normal Country: Italy after Berlusconi by Geoff Andrews Pluto Press Never did a book have a ...
Zimmer Men, The trials and tribulations of the ageing cricketer
Marcus Berkmann, Zimmer Men, The trials and tribulations of the ageing cricketer, Little Brown, £16.99. Cricket is the most inexplicable ...
The secret of Bryn Estyn, the making of a modern witch hunt
Richard Webster, The secret of Bryn Estyn, the making of a modern witch hunt, The Orwell Press, 722 pp, £25 ...
Success at last
I nearly did not write this column. It was just too bad. There are so many ways of failing at ...
Achieving my goal, well almost..!
The second year of my self-imposed cricket challenge has already begun. Older readers may remember that I set myself the ...
Oldies rule, OK
The theme over the copious English breakfasts during the Beamers' tour of Somerset was to attribute cricketing definitions to the ...
No more nurdling
The wonderful thing about trying to achieve my middle age ambition of a maiden century is that I care so ...
100 not likely
Attentive readers will recall that the last article left me at the crease for the first game of the summer, ...
53 not (yet) out
I have realised that this is not just about cricket. It's about life itself. My middle aged quest for a ...
Man v machine
I am an optimist. I have to be to believe that my middle aged quest for a maiden century is ...
A hundred declared
I have been failing at cricket for 35 years. There is no game that measures failure as harshly as cricket ...