Monthly Archives: March 2010
Dogs at Play
So poor Diego has been bitten by his dog. Reading this morning’s Sun frontpage headline ‘Hand of God’ brought back memories of the Falklands War and that infamous ‘GOTCHA’, the day when the Argentine battleship Belgrano went down, with hundreds of young conscripts on board, after being torpedoed by a British submarine. Today’s Sun story had an element of cruel jingoistic reprise, but lacked the killer punch. The dog in question was an oriental Shar Pei not an English Bulldog. And yet Sun readers were still given a study in …
Football is a noble game –or isn’t it?
So what do you get in football for £240m? You get a group of individuals playing for themselves rather than each other, who disintegrate when resisted by more humble teams with a basic sense of solidarity, and a stadium abandoned by a mercenary fan base who can only too clearly see when they have a got bad deal. That was the sad story of the Real Madrid players on Wednesday night as they tumbled out of the Champions League at the Bernabeu stadium having fallen to the magnificent Lyon musketeers. …
Feature Article THE TABLET
Latest issue: 6 March 2010 Is the sun setting on the Spanish Church? Catholicism in Spain Jimmy Burns It was announced this week that the Pope will visit Spain in November. The news comes during a tense phase in Church-State relations after the Spanish Senate approved a new abortion law on 25 February. It is the latest round in a battle that the secularising government seems to be winning Last year an estimated one million people demonstrated in Madrid when the proposals to liberalise the abortion law became public. Now …
Jimmy Burns interviews actress Katie Darling
Published in Friends of Battersea Park review April 2010 Katie Darling swoops into Il Molino bang on the appointed time of 2.45 pm, dressed in a stunning scarlet red trouser suit and boots. Ordering her umpteenth coffee of the day in a loud clear voice, she settles down easily to conversation, clearly warming to the relaxed atmosphere of Battersea’s a la mode cafe, a popular gathering place for people with time on their hands and tales to tell. Together with her husband, three children, and two dogs-the not so young Pluto (White Labrador) and …
