There is something going on in UK sport and it has people talking. I am not talking about Tim Henman once again failing to advance through Wimbledon, or the dicey form of the English cricket team. The chatter is about the rise of Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton. For those that have not been following the motor sport racing news, Lewis Hamilton is a 22 year old from England who has debuted this season and has been on the podium at every race and currently leads the championship. He qualified fastest for the British Grand Prix – the first Brit to do so in eleven years. Oh, and he is ‘black’.
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May 07
May 07
A night at the Apollo
It was a miserable night, and after spending the previous four nights on the lash (thanks to a long weekend), I found myself unsurprisingly jaded and so trekking out to Hammersmith for a gig was not exactly what I felt like doing.
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May 07
May 07
Unbiased Media – what should we expect?
"Your mum and I don’t watch CNN, it is too biased towards the US perspective, we prefer the BBC" my dad states when I ask him which news channel he likes to watch. I laugh thinking the BBC is somewhat biased too but his statement gets me thinking, is not all media biased in some way?
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Apr 07
Apr 07
Lank
That’s what we were. Lank. We had good reason to believe that we could win the Cup, and an unofficial ranking of third represents both a creditable outcome and a fair reflection of the team’s ability. Meh.
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Apr 07
Apr 07
The end of spontaneity
One of the downsides I have noted about living in a big city is the amount of planning required. I may be wearing the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia, but my memories of life in New Zealand didn’t involve vast quantities of coordination, planning and booking ahead. As I recall it, there was a lot of last minute, ‘what are you doing tonight?’ calls, and many occasions of throwing stuff in the car on a Friday and driving somewhere when the weather was looking good for the weekend.