Michael Calvin

A playlist for curry lovers…

🎵 It’s My Chapati (and I’ll Cry If I Want To)
🎵 Jalfrezi Little Thing Called Love
🎵 Paneer There and Everywhere
🎵 Knockin on Heaven’s Tandoor
🎵 Don’t Peschwari, Be Happy
🎵 Naan, I Feel Like a Woman
🎵 Poppadom Preach
🎵 Tears On My Pilau
🎵 Paperback Raita
🎵 Nessun Korma

Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

If The Proclaimers are not already in the studio recording “We’re on the march with Clarkey’s army” someone is losing their job.

Of course she has. The small matter of owing £122 million to UK taxpayers for her disgusting profiteering in a global pandemic means nothing to Michelle Mone.

NHS staff died in my hospital from the Covid they caught there - her dodgy PPE racket was vile.

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Bravo, Barney.

That was stressful. #GoCubsGo

Seeing (or more accurately hearing) the brain dead home fans at the Ryder Cup reminds me of a conversation with a senior member of the US team earlier in the year. “With two Michelobs inside them they’re going to be wild” he predicted. He wasn’t wrong.

Beautiful, Grimsby. If only Ruben Amorim had the guts to watch that 18 minute shoot out he would have discovered the meaning and value of character.

One more Premier League match to go on an inevitably extended opening weekend. At the moment it exudes the joy of a Speed Awareness Course.

Love how England and India are confirming a new form of cricket : Test 20.

Good band, gargantuan ego. Unwatchable.

Am I wrong to wish that walloper of a lead singer would somehow impale himself on his stick mic? (And spill his Guinness prop) ?

Calling all old gits....I'm writing a social history of 1966 for a book due to be published next year, and would love to hear your childhood memories of watching the World Cup. If you've got tales to tell I'd love to hear from you. Reply to this, please, and I'll follow you. Ta.

Narrator: He did, ridiculously. Levy’s Game is not About Glory.

Sack Big Ange if you dare, Levy.

Brian might have overstated his abilities as a left back, but he was the greatest football writer of his, and subsequent generations. Acutely observant, instinctively kind, wonderfully articulate. Ciao, Maestro

OK. Referee is terrible. But PSG, who were lesser than the sum of their parts in their Harlem Globetrotters era, now have the potential to become a Michael Jordan/Chicago Bulls dynasty. #ARSPS

Cyborg “sport”.

I’ve been privileged to observe many great sporting occasions individuals and achievements but that is right up there. Rory McIlroy, a career fulfilled.

After one hole, this Rory McIlroy final round at Augusta has the air of an Andy Murray physcodrama at Wimbledon.

The Manchester derby, neutered by corporate incompetence and nation state cynicism, is what happens when football is secondary to the big sell. The PL, VAR and all, has lost its soul.

Tough love, mate.

One of the best of us, Lizzy.

Ah, here they are, the bleeding experts.” Those of us who piggy-backed on boxing’s human drama in the Tyson era deserved Colin’s playful pisstaking. A giant of a journalist, an astute tutor with a generous spirit. He’d hate eulogies but deserves them. Well said, Paul.

VAR. The monster that is devouring football from the Champions League downwards.

Quelle surprise, Laura 🙄

Not a single penny of public money should be wasted on this collection of charlatans and their vanity project.

How Zelensky's lack of a suit may have fuelled Oval Office spat The Ukrainian president's military-style attire came up before he was upbraided by President Trump and JD Vance.

This is the problem with the timidity and fake balance of BBC political coverage. A historic betrayal of Ukraine to Russia by Europe's former ally is boiled down to an utterly superficial row about a man's clothes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A tsunami of truth : the best piece I’ve read in years.