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The Three Old Hacks on the super league that wasn’t

The Three Old Hacks – Episode 11 listen to it now

Commemorating the black and Asian war dead – letter to the Times

Sir, I hope the government’s apology for “pervasive racism” in not commemorating black and Asian troops who died for the empire will extend to the Gurkhas who died at Gallipoli in the First World War. When I went there I was surprised that, despite the Gurkhas having fought more valiantly than other British contingents, at […]

Boris’s football socialism

The Spectator It was once my job to brief Boris on football. Then he was very much a free marketeer, now it is amazing to see that he wants to play the socialist sports lord, a task that defeated Tony Blair. The briefing took place on a Sunday afternoon in September 1998 when news emerged […]

Cricketing Lingo – Letter to The Times

Sir, The cricket authorities’ proposals to change cricketing terms (“Quality, not new lingo, will make or break the Hundred”, Mike Atherton, sport, Apr 15) remind me of the rules of maidan (park) cricket that we had in Mumbai in my youth. In traditional cricket the umpire signals a batsman is out by raising his right […]

The parallels between Christianity and other faith explored on Easter Sunday

I joined Audrey Carville on Sunday Sequence BBC Radio Ulster on Easter Sunday to talk about the parallels between Christianity and other faiths (available until end April).

The Three Old Hacks on Boris, the pantomime hero, among other topics discussed in their podcast

Three Old Hacks – episode 10 listen now

Interview about my book Narendra Modi: the Yogi of Populism

Have a look at the interview I did with Andrew Whitehead, former BBC correspondent in India about my new book, Narendra Modi: the Yogi of Populism

Estimating Everest – letter to The Times

Sir, Patrick Kidd (TMS, Mar 13) wonders if in the present climate of name changing there will be moves to rename Everest. More useful would be for people to know who actually calculated the height of the world’s highest mountain. It was not George Everest but Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician who worked under Everest, […]

The Three Old Hacks wonder whether we are introducing ID papers by the back door – among other topics

Three Old Hacks – listen to episode 9 of their podcast  

The Three Old Hacks on the quality of leadership

Listen to episode 8 of their podcast.