Monthly Archives: February 2012
My friend Brian Paddick
Just alerted by former colleagues that Brian Paddick has been decent about me at the Leveson inquiry . Today’s Guardian blog comes out with following : 12.23pm: Brian Paddick, a former Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner who is now a Lib Dem politician, has taken the stand as today’s first witness. 12.26pm: Paddick says while he was at the Met he had lunch with staff from the Guardian and the Daily Mirror – although he describes the latter as “more of an audience with Piers Morgan”. He says the Mirror lunch …
Falklands/Malvinas: An Open Letter to Sean Penn
Dear Sean, I am writing in response to your comment in today’s Guardian. We seem to have missed each other when you were recently in Buenos Aires. I note that you were granted a meeting with ‘President Kirchner’ (sic)- that was her late husband. I am surprised your knowledge of Argentine matters did not extend to calling her by her official and family name Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. But don’t worry this kind of slip won’t matter a damn to the current incumbent of the Casa Rosada whose style of …
Poetry vs play station
It felt like a nice tonic seeing Barca play as they did last night-creativity, goals, and much presence of La Cantera –not least Messi who was in overdrive. Only hours earlier I had to suffer two cule friends of mine moaning till the early hours about how this Barca was tired and had run out of ideas and that we could be reaching the end of a cycle i.e over to you Real Madrid. I watched Messi , pure poetry in motion, while thinking of what Vicente Del Bosque told me …
Football’s wise senor
It was a privilege to accompany Vicente del Bosque on his 24 hour visit to London yesterday when he flew the flag for his country at the Spanish tourist office, at a Q &A session at the Lumiere Cinema, and much later at Abel Lusa’s ever welcoming and excellent Cambio de Tercio restaurant on the Old Brompton Road. The fact that he is one of the most successful managers in football history has not gone to his head. On the contrary he remains understated and modest, insisting that he would …
