Archive for month: July, 2014

Fun and games

29 July, 2014 (10:22) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

Sitting in the stands at Somerset’s County Ground, watching young batsman Lewis Gregory send England bowler Graham Onions back over his head for a six into the 14th row, watching my boys on their feet cheering, I wondered this: how did sport stop being so simple a joy, and become so unsporting? Don’t get me […]

Dr Fraser will see you now

21 July, 2014 (12:29) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

The National Health Service is a wonderful thing. Without it my poor nine-year-old would be suffering and maimed for life because of his badly broken arm. With it, he has been treated and will recover. You can repeat that central fact again and again: we all know people who would be dead or in pain […]

Revealing a terror of democracy

14 July, 2014 (19:45) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser