Eurovision: we decided
Eurovision; we decided. Rightly, I think: Michael Rice is a very good singer, and should put on a decent show. However, the contest was still very odd. The girl band, MAID, had never sung in public together before. Another contestant, Anisa, was a singer-songwriter who has had material recorded by Ariana Grande, but was here singing a song written by other people. It was all a bit like the middle rounds of a talent contest. Why? Right now, Britain needs to put its best foot f
Farewell, Matti Nykänen
Most sports I can imagine myself doing, but just being rubbish at them. There are a few that seem to defy possibility – ski jumping is one of them. Maybe as a result, I’ve always found it utterly gripping. When I was in my 30s, an age when sporting heroes seem to make a comeback (in my 20s I thought I was far too arty and intellectual for such stuff, then I realized I wasn’t), ski jumping was dominated by Matti Nykänen. Soaring through the air in a way that nobody else seemed
Farewell, Matti Nykänen
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