Last week was a great one for sport, and an uplifting one for me. In two entirely different ways, it showed the power that sport has to capture the imagination of huge numbers from all walks of life, and make a positive impact on our national consciousness. But before I get to that, I’d like…
Sometimes you come across a story that doesn’t quite have the ring of truth about it. You know the sort of thing. A new way of losing weight that doesn’t involve either eating less or doing more exercise. A face cream that promises to make you look 15 years younger. Very often the date at…
Tonight I will be one of 200 guests at a reception attending the British Paralympic Association’s 25th anniversary party. It will be a special occasion for me as CEO but I am a newcomer compared to many there, for whom the past quarter century of commitment to the Paralympics has resulted in much of the…
“Here we were, laughing and chatting to men who only a few hours before we were trying to kill! Some of our men even left the trench to play football.” It’s a simple idea: take the Premier League’s existing under 12s Christmas Truce tournament as a starting point, and create a mass participation opportunity for schools to…
Nuisance calls. The clue is in the name. But for a lot of people they’re more than a nuisance. For some, particularly the elderly and people living alone, the calls – especially when there’s no one on the end of the line – can be unsettling, frightening, or worse. So a few weeks ago, the…
Did you see any of the game on BBC2 ? I was lucky enough to be there – one of the 45,000 or so packed into Wembley to watch England go down 0-3 to Germany. A fair result? Probably. Disappointing? Definitely. But Germany is a world-class team and they showed us what we’ll be up…
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