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Sports Channels and Smoking, an Analogy

Earlier this summer, for many reasons, I cancelled my subscriptions to all the sports channels. The most important of these many reasons was time: I didn’t want to spend untold hours watching live cricket in daylight hours or baseball late into the night just because I could. Our main justification for subscribing to sports channels… Continue reading Sports Channels and Smoking, an Analogy

Notes from West London · On writing

A long overdue catch-up (April 2025)

Every now and then this Blog becomes almost inactive. It still receives tens of thousands of views per month. I still use it as my Exobrain, but I go through weeks or months without posting anything new. The last three months have been like that, since this piece shortly after Tony Slattery died in mid-January.… Continue reading A long overdue catch-up (April 2025)

Notes from West London · Sport

“It’s a young man’s game”

I have been researching managers of Premier League, initially to find out how many English managers there are in the top flight of English football. The answer to that one, currently, is three: Eddie Howe (Newcastle United), Sean Dyche (Everton) and Gary O’Neil (Wolves). I have looked into this idea before, most recently in this… Continue reading “It’s a young man’s game”