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Intoxicated With The Spirit: Keep Calm And Carry On Mankading | The Raging Turner
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Call for a Review. Next delivery could go anywhere. August 31, 2012. June 5, 2014. Intoxicated With The Spirit: Keep Calm And Carry On Mankading. Newsflash: Sports player plays sport by rules of the sport. Cue massive outrage and moral indignation. Anyone who’s been watching county cricket in the last 24 hours will instantly recognise the situation described. Stripped down to its bare bones, the Kartik-Barrow incident. So why the vehemence? The Spirit of the Game. The central idea is that of “fair ...
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Matthew Engel » Oxford Lectures
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In 2010-11 I was improbably appointed Visiting Professor of Media at Oxford University, a post previously held by a succession of broadcasting prominenti and sponsored by Rupert Murdoch’s company News International. This involved four lectures entitled “Please, mister, can we have our ball back? Sport, the media, and the people”. News of the World. Closed down; and, amid much embarrassment, Oxford quietly failed to appoint anyone else to the media chair. You are the earth and the sky’: How one man ...
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Matthew Engel » Engel’s England
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A taste of every county. Hellip;Though much is taken, much abides. And although this book is something of an elegy, it is also a celebration of the remarkable and continuing distinctiveness of every part of England. It is the product of a three-year journey to be more exact, a series of journeys, since real life did not cease through thirty-nine counties and one capital: an average of just over one a month. Website by Liam Cromar.
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Matthew Engel » The Red Notebooks
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Extracts from the Extracts. 8220;A brilliant collection in a wonderful cause”. 8220;Born out of pain, this is a book of humour and joy”. 8220;If you don’t pick this up and either smile or laugh outright, you’d better check your pulse”. 8220;I’m thoroughly fed up with this kind of anthology but, if you really need one, this is the best I’ve ever seen.”. In what children call the olden days 1979, to be exact I was on the brink of achieving an ambition and scoring a job on. These notebooks are not to be con...
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Matthew Engel » Reviews of Engel’s England
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Reviews of Engel’s England. Date: December 03,. 8220;Wry, rueful, funny, packed with knowledge… it is simply the most enjoyable commentary on today’s England that could be imagined.” – John Carey,. 8220;A joy and a treasure trove… Do not leave your county without it.” – Jasper Rees,. 8220;It’s a lovely book, hugely funny at times.” – Rod Liddle,. 8220;Immensely enjoyable… Engel is a wonderfully wry comic writer.” – Ian Sansom,. 8220;Engel has the perfect light, humorous touch.” –. Saturday Live, Radio 4.
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Matthew Engel » Laurie Engel Fund
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Supporting Birmingham Children's Hospital Charities. Please visit the Laurie Engel Fund. Website for details. You may also like to support the Fund by purchasing a copy of. Extracts from the Red Notebooks. Website by Liam Cromar.
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Matthew Engel » Biography
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I was born in Northampton in 1951 and learned to read by studying the sports page of the. Before being more or less educated at Mrs Cherry’s nursery (long defunct, mercifully), Great Houghton Prep School (closed 2014), Carmel College (closed 1997) and Manchester University (still going, last I heard). There being no pro pinball circuit on which to seek my fortune, and quiz machines yet to be invented, I was obliged to seek a job in newspapers. I worked on the. For 24 years) and, since 2004, for the.
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Matthew Engel » Eleven Minutes Late
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To Hel and Back. Chicago to Washington DC. Brian Viner, Independent. 8220;Very funny”. Michael Williams, Daily Telegraph. 8220;The book is a triumph”. Christopher Hirst, Independent on Sunday. 8220;Perfect reading on your next train journey”. Christian Wolmar, The Oldie. 8220;A supremely useful book as well as an enjoyable one.”. Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian. From the original press release. How did the British invent railways, and then go on to run them so badly? The railways, he concluded, were the ul...
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