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Category Archive: Culture

Developing the right image

I had no idea at the time. None at all. I’m not sure any of us did. Not […]

October 23, 2013 Culture, Pangbourne College

Book Review: The Final Whistle

Sports writing – and rugby in particular – has been guilty over the years of overborrowing phrases or […]

September 24, 2013 Belgium, Book reviews, Books, Culture, Dublin, France, History, Olympics, Rugby union, Sport

“So, er, do you like poetry?”

My children refuse to believe that there was a time before mobile phones and the internet. “Was it […]

September 3, 2013 Books, Culture, Dublin, Ireland, Trinity College

Mickelson inspires O’Hurley to Swing Away

There is a pause on the end of the telephone line as John O’Hurley, breakfasting at home in […]

August 8, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport, USA

Crazy Horse – and Uwe too

Let’s just get it out there at the start: Neil Young is a pain in the arse. I […]

July 30, 2013 Culture, France, Music, USA

Kampmann shooting high with Swing Away

Steven Kampmann is a busy man. On the one hand, casting for the movie Swing Away, which is […]

June 30, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport, USA

George’s Greek Golf Dream

Golfers are a peculiar breed. They live and breathe the game, curse it, hail it, read every book […]

June 20, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport

My Big Fat Greek Golf Movie

There is a moment in the movie Big Fat Greek Wedding when Gus Portokalos, the father, explains how […]

June 14, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport

Greek government chooses wrong target in closing down state broadcaster ERT

Greeks like to talk. So much so that it is possible to have ten or 15 Greeks sitting […]

June 12, 2013 Culture, Greece

Teenage Kicks at La Maroquinerie

If Steve Earle is an artist who has only recently tripped the light fandango across my musical dance […]

June 6, 2013 Culture, Music

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