One of the pleasures of this Ashes series has been Michael Atherton’s daily despatches. (I see your eyes rolling at the word pleasures - I’m sure you have your own epithets.) That’s how it’s been all series.” Caught Covid? “About the only thing they have caught this series, cobber.” In these dire sporting times, we must take comfort where we can. There was a very decent line from Joanna Lumley in Meltdown, a Radio 4 play, last week: “Social media?

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2022 14:33 UTC