Category Literature & Popular Culture

My Lesson in Spanish

November 11, 2015 · by · in Literature & Popular Culture, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

OF ALL MY HEROES, from those who fought on the battlefields, to those who elevated sport from the banal to the artistic, to those who wrote prose and poetry that attacked my sensibilities, perhaps the greatest of them is Christopher Hitchens. For me, he stands in a small elite group beside Marco Pantani, George Orwell, […]

Wine, Women and Hypertrophia: On Game of Thrones

July 23, 2013 · by · in Literature & Popular Culture · Leave a comment

Game of Thrones is one of those rare TV shows over which even the most discerning viewers will vehemently disagree. For many, it is simply silly, poorly acted, and is populated by an unnecessary plethora of characters. For others, it is superb entertainment, and transcends the genre of fantasy to touch, at times, the quintessential […]

Why Lance Armstrong May Be a Psychopath

July 7, 2013 · by · in Cycling, Literature & Popular Culture · 5 Comments

Were I Floyd Landis or Alberto Contador, and I picked up the 2013 Official Tour de France Programme, I would be seriously irate. I would have immediately noticed, in the ‘Roll of Honour’, that my name had been removed, along with the names of my other fellow pariah doper-winners, and that other names had replaced […]

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