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Vandaag om 08:51 door Vincent Van Genechten Foto: Belga Geen Europese titel voor de Rode Duivels. Een sterk Italië was in de kwartfinales met 2-1 te sterk. In het buitenland denken ze dat de Belgische droom voorbij is voor onze ‘Gouden Generatie’. De Telegraaf: ‘Faam niet waargemaakt’ ‘De gouden lichting van de Rode Duivels heeft ook op EURO 2020 geen hoofdprijs kunnen pakken voor België… En zo hebben de Belgen na de kwartfinaleplaatsen op het WK 2014 in Brazilië en het EK 2016 in Frankrijk en de derde plaats op het WK 2018 in...

Died April 22, 2021 FOR the best part of seven decades Anthony Thwaite, who has died aged 90, swam serenely through the piranha-rich waters of literary London. His curriculum vitae included spells as literary editor of the Listener, the New Statesman and Encounter. He was a familiar voice on the BBC, where he was a producer for five years, chairman of the Booker Prize in 1986 (when the winner was Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils), a stalwart of Arts Council committees and a regular guest on British Council foreign tours. Quintessentially English, he wrote poetry that was witty, lucid ...

by William Palmer (Robinson £20, 262pp) The size of my monthly Majestic Wine bill suggests author William Palmer is not wrong when he says that writers — ‘psychologically slippery’ at the best of times — are particularly prone to the joys and pitfalls of grain and grape. Booze, ‘at least at the outset, is hugely enjoyable’, Palmer says correctly. It is ‘an excellent buffer against social boredom,’ and any other sort of boredom. Drawing on the descriptions by Anthony Burgess and Kingsley Amis, In Love With Hell evokes the idyll currently denied us — the traditional street-co...

Is Te Puke's Roy Baldock New Zealand's oldest rugby player? 14 Apr, 2021 07:20 PM 4 minutes to read Roy Baldock with his waistcoat covered in badges collected at on Golden Oldies rugby trips. Stuart Whitaker is editor of the Te Puke Timesstuart.whitaker@nzme.co.nz In a quarter of a century of playing Golden Oldies rugby, Te Puke's Roy Baldock has never been on a losing side. He's never been on a winning side either. Played under IRB laws, with some variations, games are always undecided. Whatever happens before the final whistle, the result is always a draw. Roy, 86, is, by some margin, the o...

From Alasdair Gray's Poor Things to Marguerite Duras's The Lover, and, naturally, Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary