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Amid the controversy around Gary Lineker’s exit from the BBC, a couple of points need making, entirely unrelated to the circumstances of his...
I’ve long had a soft spot for the achilles tendon, my own and everyone else’s. This goes back to middle school where we read a book called Greeks...
What’s the best bit of advice you’ve ever had? It’s a common question to lob in at the end of an interview. I mean the kind of interview you...
All I want for Christmas is the return of yoghurt pot lids. And not just for me, for everyone. In this season of goodwill, I want everyone to get a...
I wasn’t sure if he wanted to fight me or just tell me something, but the bloke in the car behind wanted me to pull over. As far as I could see, he...
There are three things I find fascinating about myself that I can’t tell anyone about without boring them to death: music, food and dreams. Someone...
A closed pub is a sad, sad sight. Where once was life, people talking and laughing, now there is none. OK, bad stuff would have gone on too. I get...
There are several problems with my face, not least of which is that I look so bloody miserable all the time. Honestly, I’m usually smiling inside....
It’s excellent toilet reading, I say, when I’m talking about my book of some of these columns. People laugh, but on the quiet I mean it as a great...
One thing led to another this week, and I spent some time with my mum. She spends her days doing four things, to all of which she brings great...
Today, I’m interviewing a jockeyon my radio programme about his memoir. Being not much into horse racing, I knew next to nothing about Davy Russell...
I glimpse them in the distance just as the M4 readies itself to peter out into west London. They are now to be found along furred-up arterial roads...
There is something worse than pure incompetence, and that is next-level incompetence – when your incompetence starts feeding off itself. It’s a...
Tim Spector, the doctor and diet bloke behind the Zoe nutrition app, has a lot to say about how different bodies process the food put into them in...
At 8am on Sunday I was desperately short of fuel while heading north from Birmingham. I should have stopped at Tamworth, but I wanted to make my...
Happiness is a comfortable pillow. Not that I would know, as I’ve never had one. If ever I do find one at a hotel or some such, I will certainly...