I landed in Sydney this morning, where I am attending the Asian Racing Conference, to the largest flurry of e-mails I have had for some time. Most of them revolved around the Grand National. In any circumstances other than that I would have been roughly over Darwin at the time the race went off, I’d […]
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A bit of Fielding
A lottery is a taxation/Upon all the fools in creation/And Heaven be praised/ It is easily raised/ Credulity’s always in fashion (1732) I was interested today to read the exchange in the DCMS Select Committee hearing which took place a week ago last Tuesday, featuring people from Camelot talking about the National Lottery. I had […]
– June 13, 2013
FT
Quite chuffed to see that my blog was mentioned in the FT today, in connection with Ralph Topping starting one. Sporting chance for Topping blog By Emiko Terazono Published: April 8 2011 01:35 | Last updated: April 8 2011 01:35 Always good for a few punchy words of wisdom, William Hill chief executive Ralph Topping has launched […]
– April 8, 2011
The vision thing
My last two posts have been about ideas that will appear, to many, to have come from left field. Indeed, the first was posted on a Facebook group shortly after I wrote it, under the following commentary: Admirable and a nice idea yes, but given the lack of resources for the club side of our […]
– June 30, 2019
Membership’s for life, not just for Christmas. But for Christmas is a start.
A busy schedule has stopped me from following up on my first rowing blog for ages, but two things in the last 24 hours have made me realise that it’s about time I did, so here I am. The first was an e-mail I received from someone who had questioned why he needed to be […]
– December 4, 2018
Mine’s a bedroom, yours is a mansion
There was a letter to one of the papers last week – the same week that a ComRes poll for the National Housing Federation revealed that 59% of adults agree that the Bedroom Tax should be abandoned entirely, rising to 79% of people who intend to vote Labour – which said that the Bedroom Tax was a great […]
– September 30, 2013
Ban Twitter? Surely ICC should be doing the opposite?
I’m scratching my head this morning at the news that the ICC has banned the use of Twitter during the Cricket World Cup in order to reduce the likelihood of corruption and the use of inside information. I picked it up as I arrived in the office after attending a breakfast at which the Egyptian […]
– February 16, 2011
