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My monthly off-season FMTE column is now up at nfluk.com, you can link to it here . (Update: that link seems to have expired as of September...

My obituary of Stephanie Kwolek, who invented Kevlar, is up at the Guardian online (you can link to it here ) and ought to be in the paper p...

I was on BBC Radio 4's Film Programme today (we taped it yesterday). It's available on I player ( link to it here) , and will also b...

I'm afraid I just couldn't resist when, in Dave Laing's otherwise fine obituary of Gerry Goffin, he spoke of Goffin pairing up ...

I've done a retelling of the story of Joe Gaetjens, the Haitian who scored the only goal for the US when they defeated England 1-0 in th...

My review of this exceptional exhibition is now up at Jazz Journal, you can link to it here . Although it looks great, I've taken the li...

I came across the manuscript of this poem the other day; I don't recall when I wrote it, but it was published in Tokyo almost exactl...

Deenie Nash is a teen-aged girl in a cold, gray town in the northern USA. Her brother is a star hockey player, her father teaches at their ...

During World War II the Spanish dictator Franco, wishing to repay the kindness shown by Nazi Germany during the Spanish Civil War, organise...

If you're one of the readers of this blog interested in American football, and you haven't seen this already at nfluk.com, my off-se...

My obit of Malcolm Glazer, owner of both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL and Manchester United of the EPL, is in today's Guardian. I...

At the same time I wrote the appreciation of John and his detective Charlie Resnick, I also chose the five best of the 12 Resnick novels (an...