Friday, September 30, 2005

The Emperor’s Brand New Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat?

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Watching No Direction Home on Tuesday and Wednesday this week - Martin Scorcese’s epic but hypnotic documentary about Bob Dylan’s career up ...

Balking the end half-won...*

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It seems that, not content with bringing out a set of stamps to commemorate the Ashes victory, they've gone and made two of them 68p. Wh...
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Site update

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Should you wish, you can now email Think of England posts to friends and enemies. Click on the wee envelope at the bottom right of each post...

I could murder for a nice cup of Rosie Lee

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In the Telegraph today: Traditional tea drinkers have reached boiling point over the state of the nation's cuppa, saying the standard o...
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Monday, September 26, 2005

Ashes 2005: Funnies

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Funniest moment 1: As the umpires discussed coming off for bad light on the fourth day of the Final Test, with England wanting to waste time...

Ashes 2005: God is an Englishman (the moments that swung it)

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The key moments that led to England's momentous victory over the seemingly unbeatable Australians. Before the series: Twenty20 bouncers ...

Ashes 2005: The Aussie Aftermath

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How the Aussies fared Killed in action Jason Gillespie (0/10) His confidence was shattered in the one-dayers. The cowardly Aussie selectors ...

Ashes 2005: The England Heroes

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Marcus Trescothick (8/10) The Aussies thought he was their ‘bunny’, but he was the most consistent batsman from either team. Andrew Strauss ...

The Ashes 2005: Weird science

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Statistics from the series For the first time since the 1978-79 Ashes - a series blighted by Packer defections - Australia failed to muster ...
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Monday, September 19, 2005

Mortimer’s Miscellany

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On Saturday Mrs TofE and I toddled along to the Redgrave Theatre in Clifton (named after Clifton College alumnus Sir Michael, and surely one...

We won the Ashes

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Triumphalist review coming soon...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Nobody told me there'd be days like these

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It took a while for this cricketing summer to begin and now we don't want it to end By Sue Mott 30/08/2005 The Telegraph It has been qui...

Mr Benn goes off on another surreal trip

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Bush is the real threat Tony Benn Wednesday August 31, 2005 The Guardian Now that the US president has announced that he has not ruled out ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

What’s £100k in pieces of silver?

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The BBC reports the story of a Roman Catholic nun, who is protesting against the filming of the Da Vinci code at Lincoln Cathedral, on the g...
Monday, August 15, 2005

But where's Richard Burton?

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A (relatively rare, recently) trip to the flicks this weekend to see War of the Worlds . I thought it was a tense, thoroughly enjoyable B-mo...
Monday, August 08, 2005

Flintoff’s Ashes

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It was the narrowest margin of victory in all the 308 Ashes matches, pure agony to watch, and miracle of miracles, England bloody won it. Fr...