Monday, 19 December 2022

Collected Poems by Gary Snyder, Library of America

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  A deep dive   In being honoured by a mighty Library of America tome, Snyder finally takes his place on the bookshelf next to the great m...
Friday, 18 November 2022

Why I will not be watching the Qatar World Cup

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  About a year ago I made a decision that I was not going to watch the Men’s FIFA World Cup when the money-making circus rolled around to Qa...
Saturday, 24 September 2022

Football in the memory

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  For most children in Britain, a question that follows ‘What is your earliest memory?’ is ‘What is the first match you remember?’ For some ...
Sunday, 15 May 2022

Fixing the European Cup

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  In August 1964, Liverpool, as English Champions, travelled to a stadium called the Laugardalsvöllur in Reykjavik to place their first ever...
Saturday, 16 April 2022

The White Ship by Charles Spencer

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  The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer (2020). London: William Collins   Char...
Friday, 28 January 2022

The Way Home – Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle

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  It is quite fitting that I did not pay any money for this book. It is stranger and more appropriate too that I found it on a wall in an al...
Saturday, 8 January 2022

George V Never A Dull Moment by Jane Ridley

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  The last major appraisal of the life of George V, the grandfather of the present monarch, was by Kenneth Rose and published in 1983. The t...