I heard the public apology by Tiger Woods last Friday on the BBC London evening news show, and was kind of satisfied when fate had me go through a long stretch of tunnel during that story on the way back from east London to Heathrow. I find it odd that Tiger Woods has to […]
I’ve never made much secret of the fact that I hate football. I have done since I was forced to play it at school as a child, but I equally dislike the acrimonious rivalries, the overblown salaries and transfer deals, the diva-like behaviour of some of the players, the bad-loserism and the boorish behaviour […]
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Saturday Live, 12/09/2009
This programme features an interview with Jade Bracey, a young woman who suffered a head injury after being hit by a car on her 15th birthday. She had to have part of her right frontal lobe removed; this is the part of the brain which […]
Continue reading about Head injury, and disabled and black perspectives on Serena Williams
We’re all rehearsing for the presidency … I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army — Ani DiFranco, Not So Soft
Yesterday evening, just before 7pm, a lady called Hilary Lister completed a round-Britain sailing trip. She had to do it in two bursts, as weather conditions broke the electronics on her boat […]
Last week, a South African female runner who won the gold medal by a very clear margin (albeit because of a surge in the last minute or so) in the World Athletics Championships in Berlin had her gender questioned, as she has a rather deep voice and a masculine appearance, despite by all accounts having […]
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