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Varieties of Amateurism
Bloomsbury’s
Hombre
WSG and the English Satirical Tradition
The Impossibility of Being Mediaeval
On being from “the North”
The Founder of the Feast
Monologue Concerning Unnatural Religion
Highmindedness – and in its Purest Form
The Prime Minister who “Got it”
The Lost Theory of the Psychowannabe
All the History You’ll Ever Need to Know
Marxism’s Trojan Horse?
A Discussion in Three Acts
School Story
Fascist? Moi?
Foodies, Faddies, Fogeys and Fanatics.
The Play’s the Thing – remember
Making Discreet Hay
Cheer Up, Gloomy Dean
The Ploughman’s Canapes
Going Nowhere
Here’s One I Made Earlier
The Ploughman’s Canapes
The Alternative Brown Boy
How Utopian is Utopia?
Hic fo toma modernska tipiker, da?
A Sandcastle Against a Tsunami
Get Real!
The Number One Man’s Number One Fan
Rum Little Cove
Connie, Don’t Take Your Love to the Shed . . .
The Primacy of Will
A Tale of Two Cities: the Sequel
Joseph Maguire
Swear by the Best of Schools
Search for the Savage Inside Yourself
Resisting the New Roundheads
Hills ’n Trees ’n Watter
Matthew and his Imaginary Friend
Outre-Manche, Autre-Monde
Don’t Envy Him!
Grimm or What?
The Boys’ Book of All Knowledge
Oh, My Friends, Be Warned By Me . . .
God for England and Sir Arthur
Why I ...think we have too many books
Colourful Eminence
There’s Only One Albert Camus
How cool is this?
History with a Happy Ending?
Tom Brown's Schooldays
What is it about Lizzy?
Travel
Vive Ma France
Suffolk: a Review
News from the Russian Front:
In the Land of the Heroic Simpleton
Roses are Blue?
In the Lands of the Prophet
Ten Thoughts on Tourism
That Antipodean Identity Problem
The Hills are Not So Alive
Shufti Antiquity
: Notes on Egypt
Globalisation and Gastronomy: News from the Front
The Grand Tour
Back Over the Curtain
Sport
What has become of the Olympics?
What do Governments want from Sport? And what do they get?
Sport as Virtue . . . as Love . . . as Commerce
Welcome to Stan’s World
Blackshirt Rugby – a Colonial Psychosis
The Black Man in the White Suit
What (on earth) are “Sportswriters” for?
In Praise of the County Championship
The Political Economy of Sport: Conceptual Problems and Regulatory Dilemmas.
The Enemies of Football are the Enemies of Life
The Crisis of National Hunt Racing, 2003-? ?
A (Brief) Political History of Horse Racing
GAMBLING – Theory and Practice
THE VALUE OF SPORT: Commerce, Politics and the Good Life
Sport, Politics and Society Module Document 2007-8
The Curious Role of the USA in World Sport
Sporting Virtue and the Biological Challenge
Gentlemen or Performers
Education
Farewell to Exams
Swear by the Best of Schools
Young, Gifted and Talented
Then and Now
The Worst Thing That Happened
The Realities of University Expansion
GI Blues
DON’S DIARY
Miscellaneous
Upper Class Twits
The Craftiest of Madness
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On the Lower Class
Embarrassed by Shylock
The Task of Filling up the Blanks
The Fat Man Trying to Get Out
Hal Becomes Harry
Magic Moment at Covent Garden
Lear, Tolstoy, Orwell . . . . and Me
Anton and Agoraphobia
La Vie en “Biopic”
Semi-Secret Heroes: 6 of the Best
T-Shirt Heads: Six of the Worst
The (Royal) Show Must Go On
Some Ado About Something
On Mimicry and Creativity
The Terrors of the Bear-Garden
Maggie Forever
“Great” TV Drama – Thank God That’s All Over
I’m Hal from Chicago
Storm of Ideas
A Rant about Wine
In (Partial) Defence of Yobs
How Evsei Liberman is Running the World
My revolting past
The Costs of Prosperity
There’ll Always Be An England?
The Downhill Stretch
Copyright C Sheen 2005
