There are many things I am not good at. I am a terrible guitarist. I cannot draw. I am barely numerate. But of all the things I do badly, the one at which I suck the most is undoubtedly cricket. Now, I grew up watching my Dad play cricket and I longed to be good …
On Monday night, Arsenal scored one of the loveliest goals I’ve ever seen. And I say Arsenal, not Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, because practically the entire side made it: a team of specialists contributing to a sublime whole. I work with specialists. Universities are full of them. Not one of them has a right foot like Aubameyang’s …
I’ve been doing a lot of tidying up lately. If you were to ask the rest of my family they would say that this is because I am a strangely obsessive and troubled little man; if you ask me, it’s just that I think it’s important to live in an ordered environment. An obsessively tidy, …