RIP 2023
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A little closer to home.
Boo.
Stirling was right in the time when I was maximum teenage cricket fanboi.
Followed domestic cricket on Sports Round-up. Central Districts were my team. Listened to his debut in Pakistan of an evening.
Only 61.
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Produced some iconic photographs.
I think it was Chris Laidlaw who provided the "Who'd Be A Welshman?" caption to this Peter Bush photo
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Brian Price passed on. One of the go to guys for Wales and the Lions in the 60s. By all accounts a very good radio commentator later on too.
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I still have a battered copy of Terry McLean's Willie Away I filched from somewhere untold decades ago. I will read the Newport game report in his honour
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More on Peter Bush.
A family member, a pro photographer who covers athletics events, mentioned him to me today. Told me he was known about and highly regarded universally, not just for his rugby photography, but for his portrait work around sportsmen; "He was one of the first to show not just the bloke who'd played a game, but the player himself - bit of a trailblazer". Pointed me to this pic as an example:
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Peter Bush had some family links to the ABs as well.
https://www.allblacks.com/news/iconic-photographer-peter-bush-passes-away/
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Remembering the musical greats we lost in 2023
In 2023, we lost iconic performers and characters who filled the world with their music. NME remembers them
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67830106
Jacques Delors. European President said to be the main man responsible for the Single Currency. Also, arguably, the man more responsible for Brexit than anyone else -
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Husband charged over crash that killed Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins in Adelaide
Professional cyclist Rohan Dennis has been charged with causing the death of his wife, Olympian Melissa Hoskins after a crash in Adelaide's north on Saturday night.
This one could go in a couple of threads …
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@Victor-Meldrew He became ever more eccentric in his views and was an apologist in recent years for some of the world's worst bastards.
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Got caught out in the early '80's onwards making stuff up. Did an article about child slavery in Thailand but the "slave" girl he said he rescued was his assistant's daughter. When exposed, he claimed it was a CIA plot to discredit him...
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@Victor-Meldrew Hats off to The Times obituary team. This is one of the best takedowns I've read in a while.
John Pilger, campaigning Australian journalist, dies aged 84
Controversial, left-wing documentary maker whose name inspired an unflattering verb
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Hats off to The Times obituary team. This is one of the best takedowns I've read in a while.
Brilliant:
By the early Seventies, he had acquired a taste for never travelling less than club class and sporting expensive designer shirts that were invariably laundered at Jeeves of Belgravia. Whenever he was reporting on the iniquities of the Thai military and western capitalism in Thailand, he invariably stayed at the Mandarin Oriental, one of the grandest and most expensive hotels in Asia.
To further add to his “Bollinger Bolshevik” credentials, he also acquired a farmhouse in Tuscany, where an architect created a conversation pit, which he decorated with photographs of himself in the company of assorted freedom fighters, anti-imperialists and left-wing dictators.
