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One cricket stat that seems to have slipped under my radar is the remarkable achievement of Pakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq in Abu Dhabi in ...

Here's a quick round-up of statistical nuggetry on the retirement of two admirably nuggety left-handers , Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka...

Another major , another round which equalled the major championship scoring record for an individual round but didn't break it. You migh...

The Stake by the Steve Miller Band during Sky Sports' coverage of the USPGA championship from Whistling Straits . Cracking tune , mild...

Diminutive Swedish golfer and 2015 Memorial Tournament winner David Lingmerth, and comedian, playwright and screenwriter Patrick Marber. ...

I was interested to discover which songs had kept the five Queen number 2 hits I referred to in the previous post off the top slot, and, hav...

So there we were, the wife and I, all prepared to have an early night and watch something edifying on the TV, maybe something from our exten...

The English language is a great thing, don't get me wrong, but it has its limitations. Do you mean funny ha ha or funny peculiar? Do you...

Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright and comic actress Sally Phillips. Pictures carefully chosen as they only really look alike when they...

Our Kind Of Traitor by John le Carré. Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins have got precious little to complain about, on the face of it. H...

Quick follow-up on a couple of earlier posts: I should have mentioned during the Pride And Prejudice review that this is another book tha...

A couple of photo galleries to catch up on from various recent travels: Firstly, we went to an owl sanctuary for my Dad's birthday. N...

It seems like BBC presenters are queuing up to bombard viewers with a fusillade of c-bombs at the moment. Hot on the heels of John Inverdale...

Never mind all that stuff about books and golf , you'll be saying, we haven't had a shoes news update for a while. And you're ...

In the wake of the thrilling climax to The Open Championship, here's a short list of reasons why we should cherish 2015 champion Zach ...

Solaris by Stanisław Lem. Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, has been assigned an unusual mission: travel through the vastness of space to th...

Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen. Well, this is awkward. You'll recall my listing a whole catalogue of 19th-century classics tha...

Yet another appearance for Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times , this time at the start of a montage of trickery in Dynamo: Magician I...

My excuse for largely ignoring Father's Day up to now has been: well, its falling on the third Sunday in June means it's never more...

Here's a Headline Of The Day for you, on the face of it an utterly inconsequential showbiz story about two people who may once have bee...