I was fortunate enough to learn my trade in a time and place where that trade was a mysterious black art. Getting a job was easy. Getting my own way was easier still. Imagine my alarm when it transpired everyone had become a writer, and that I was no longer special at all. All those…
We’re reminded today by David Aaronovitch in the Times of why care with English usage and knowing the rules is more than simple pedantry or being ‘cute’. And it echoes what I’ve been saying for years – some might say ad nauseam, that in allowing the governing clerical classes to get away with bad English…
This coming Saturday 4th January 2014, six and a half thousand campaigners are expected at a rally on Cottesloe Beach, West Australia to protest Premier Colin Barnett’s decision to instigate a shark-culling policy in the state. The decision has stoked clamorous protest among the public (embracing significant numbers of surfers, divers and swimmers), as well…
Good Writers Will Lead Their Clients to Embrace Change We need to examine the state of the writing industry, so I’m looking for input from people who both commission freelance writing / content writing / proofreading / copywriting projects, as well as from writers of all disciplines, experience levels (newbies to heavyweights), industry sectors and…
People who dislike exclusivity based on discrimination against gender, race, faith, sexuality or political hue are termed ‘reasonable people’. That such xenophobia seems anachronistic in the developed world in the 21st century is a reasonable enough stance. Wimmin like to shame bastions of maleness in an often aggressive manner, and the voice of what the…
When a fundamentally good and decent man is publicly savaged in an England that one used to associate with words like tolerance, understanding, courage and fair play, you have to question how long before that society begins devolving into paranoid and aggressive tribalism <a ref="When a fundamentally good and decent man is publicly savaged in…
I’ve been known to miss a putt or two but I’m missing this R&A / USGA anchoring issue by a mile. And there’s a bloody great hole involved here too… likely in the reasoning behind wanting to push for the ban on anchoring. Golf’s ruling bodies risk becoming a laughing stock over the issue of…
Thirteen years in the golf industry and I never encountered James McCormick. Along the way, I did indeed meet crackpot inventors, gullible fools, hopeful dreamers, nasty bastards and outright charlatans among a lot of thoroughly decent and gifted people. McCormick is in a league of his own, though… Golf Equipment makes a lot of money,…
Although late in coming, some helpful further information from the new owners of Golf Europe throws some new light on the proposed 2012 trade fair and future events… In the light of dwindling attendance figures from 2002 until 2010, by the time of the show’s last appearance at MesseStadt (the monster venue at the end…
Chubby Chandler is respected for – among other reasons – having paid his dues. Retiring from the professional game in 1989 he gambled in true Frontier style with a 10 grand overdraft on setting himself up in sports player management. Hats off to him… balls of steel… all of that. Our paths cross once or…