Fourth Test, Trent Bridge
The fourth test began yesterday in promising fashion for the Australians. It was raining. But hopes that they could be rescued by Pommie weather yet again looked unlikely at the end of day two. Their reply to England’s impressive first innings total of 477 stands at 99 for 5 and the forecast […]

As Blighty is currently reading Simon Singh’s book ‘The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography’ (no, it’s not a snappy title is it, I prefer The Catcher in the Rye myself) today’s post is in code. No not this bit! The bit below, it might not be quantum cryptography, […]

If you’re not walking around your garden bumping into prophet bearing tree trunks this weekend (see below), you could well be stumbling across wrinkled old arses belonging to people like Mr and Mrs Pollard of Malmesbury. They have organised a day for people to wander around their garden without any clothes on. They have notified […]

Hallelujah it is a miracle. The face of Jesus Christ has appeared in a hawthorn tree in West Sussex. A couple found him in their garden. Usually they would call in the police to get rid of the intruder but on this occasion they called in a pastor instead, who, being as deluded as them, […]

Okay, you say, but apart from sitting around in rain and then buggering off home when the sun comes out, what exactly are these ashes about? Well, the Ashes are a series of games played between England and Australia every two years, alternating between the respective countries. Nowadays the Australians usually win them, but we […]

Third Test, Old Trafford
For anyone not familiar with cricket the one thing you might know is that a game can last five days only for it to end in a draw. What you might not realise, however, is that the rules actually conspire with the weather to encourage this ‘outcome’.

Picture the scene on Saturday […]

An injured player is booed by opposition fans for nearly having his leg broken by their lunatic number six, managers commit multiple malapropisms in post-match interviews and a director of QPR is forced at gunpoint to resign from the club. Yes, the football season is here again.

American money-man Malcolm Glazer takes over at Manchester United […]

Another day another bizarre World Championship in something silly enough to make the BBC website. And we’re not talking about the athletics, although the British jokers in Finland are ridiculous enough. No, we’re talking about the World Memory Championships taking place at Oxford University this weekend. Fifty competitors from around the world are taking part, […]

With the World Athletics Championships taking place in Finland, the Ashes poised at 1-1 and the English football season underway, Blighty thought it would be a good idea to help demystify some of that jargon spoken by sports commentators.
Commentatorspeak: British athletics is currently going through a transitional period
Translation: British athletics is currently rubbish, let’s have […]

Blighty returns from London sad to report that the terrorists have made a victory of sorts. The tourist industry has been so badly hit that you can even get close enough to the Rosetta Stone to see part of it. Albeit through a forest of American and Japanese cameras. Trying to walk through Leicester Square […]