Eric Clapton is 80. Scarcely believable, not so much the passing of the years, but the fact that he has managed to survive to such a...

“If a man has talent and can’t use it, he has failed.”   Thomas Wolfe (American novelist)   The last bars crashed out and suddenly the...

The recent funeral of Denis Law, the last surviving member of what is known in Manchester United folklore as ‘The Holy Trinity’ – the...

“Permission to let the bottom lip wobble, Sir.”   (Nick Daffern)   This is a long-standing joke between me and my old mate, Nick,...

It is an extraordinary fact – one that I was ignorant of until now – that 10% of all England cricketers only played once for their...

My wife posed this question at breakfast recently. What is the difference between Putin annexing the Crimea and invading Ukraine, and the...

Well, no, they never are and were never meant to be. “Life is like riding a bicycle,” Albert Einstein wrote to his son, “To keep your...

It was the current headmaster of Malvern College, Keith Metcalfe, I think, who said, “Andy Murtagh has all the best stories.” Well, I...

Towards the end of my teaching career, I became increasingly aware of the dead hand of bureaucracy that was starting to strangle the life...