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Nan knew
“I want you to read this,” said my grandmother Evelyn Munn (1899-1978), handing me a dauntingly thick, well-thumbed hardback book. I was 13, a shy, sly, lazy boy mainly preoccupied with John …
Gary Speed (1969-2011): a reaction
It was the long hot summer of 1976. Her house-mates had gone down to Cornwall for the week; Jean remained alone in London. With temperatures on the Archway streets outside topping …
GB football team
Creating a GB football team for the 2012 Olympics is a cheap stunt. Nobody bothered at previous Olympics and nobody will bother at future Olympics; it’s just another example of …
Indigestion
I’m a fairly good cook, if I say so myself. I do an Aubergine Bake that stops traffic, my Cauliflower Cheese is renowned in three counties (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan …
The last picture show
Cardiff, I suppose, is fairly well endowed with cinemas: there are four multiplex chains (Cineworld, Odeon, Premiere and Vue) showing an unrelenting rotation of whatever manipulative pubescent escapist tripe the mainstream …
Only joking
Rather like history, comedy is written by the winners. Russians make jokes about Poles, Americans make jokes about Mexicans, Australians make jokes about Aborigines, the Chinese make jokes about the Tibetans, …