Opinion

Martian plot to unionise racing... or maybe it's just Labour.

Sometimes I just wonder whether Aliens have kidnapped me and turned my life into one long series of tests, where, luckily, the probes used are just…

Oct 24 •

Paving the way to taxing the Cause, not the Effect

I think it’s fair to say that Champion’s Day was a game of two halves.

Oct 21 •

One Sweet and Sour Dysprosium Oxide and a Manganese and Cobalt Spare Ribs

China is weaponising Rare Earths and Resources in its Western Aspirations

Oct 16 •

What a grey day...

What a dreadful day for Charlie Appleby, to which you can add my name, and possibly, some of you.

Oct 12 •

Just writing dear, not ranting!

I am grateful for your patience, blame the delay if you like on writer’s cramp, a technical term for wife.

Sep 27 •

Crab Air is going to save us, all wearing plastic shoes

This week we have learned that the embrocation, if not the cure for all Cheltenham’s racing ills, is to reduce the numbers of people coming for two of…

Sep 26 •

Why being a stoic isn't apathetic... or is it?

Day 1 of The Cambridgeshire meeting always demands a little philosophical thinking!

Sep 25 •

There's a faint glimmer of light; no it's just a pub that hasn't shut yet

Britain's Power Blank and the final day of The Western Meeting

Sep 19 •

Random Acts of Corduroy, a smelly crutch, and the St Leger. What's not to like?

It has only just been bought to my attention that Haru Urara, a Japanese racehorse famed throughout the land of the rising sun for never having won a…

Sep 13 •

Bad tailoring, bad planning, bad decisions - democracy (and Donny) lurches on

Day 2 of The Leger meeting

Sep 12 •

Like an Arabian horse show in Doha, after an Israeli flypast, there are numerous conflicting messages currently flying around.

Sep 11 •

Randomly drinking claret for breakfast

The appalling, ongoing gloom of daily life in Blighty, was made so much brighter this week by several Random Acts of Kindness (or RAKs) to the Editor.

Aug 29 •

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