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Pace, race, and resistance

Ben Lewis reviews director Stevan Riley's 'Fire in Babylon' (2011, DVD, £12.99) Those who labour under the illusion that cricket is the dull and dreary preserve of the British establishment, that the gentle thwack of willow on leather should hold no interest for the workers’ movement and should be confined to the fields ...

Coming out for Wales

In 2010 we might jsut see a sporting world where homosexuality is at least less of a taboo, and for this we must thank Alfie Thomas, writes Ben Lewis It is rare that you read or see something in the news that cheers you up. The far left press’s eternal Panglossianism - occasionally tantamount to ...