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One of the disheartening things (for me) about how the online world has developed is the primacy of television as a cultural reference point. In the early years of…
I have always been irritated by the use of “tourist” and “touristy” as terms of abuse. Better the honest-to-goodness tourist than the self-righteous (and probably utterly deluded about “authenticity”) traveler,…
Continuing my ressurection of my sport-themed writing, here is another piece from the Social Affairs Unit Blog. Ostensibly a review of Goal! this is really a mini-essay on football movies – I had written…
As I have previously observed , a lot of my writing was once about sport. Much of this was in the form of book reviews, and the odd film review. In 1998…
