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SPORT IN JANUARY Almost two years ago, on 31 January 2010, I started this blog with a post on the Australian Open . 602 posts later, it is...

LIAR'S POKER There are two reasons to read Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, which I have just done, some 20 years after I first did....

HUNGARY Hungary has always been a bit different. Magyar, its language, is (along with Finnish and Estonian) a member of the Finno-Ugric fa...

THE HONOURS LIST (3) It is nice to see that I am not the only one who dislikes the U.K. Honours List . The Government has just been forced...

DATA DUMP (2) I must admit I was feeling pretty depressed after my hard drive crashed last week . Not only was there a fair chance that I ...

E.U. MATTERS It's worth stepping back from the endless discussions about the "imminent" collapse of the Euro/Greek default/s...

SCOTTISH FOOTBALL Scottish football is very dull. Teams come and go, but there are only two that really matter, Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow...