England’s Matt Wallace is in a tie for second at the Charles Schwab Challenge after hitting a first-round four-under-par 66. He is part of a nine-strong chasing pack that trails PGA Tour rookie John Pak by three shots at Colonial Country Club. Wallace was level par after the front nine, but made three birdies in...
Author: John O’ReillyTitle: The Art of the “One-on-One”Subtitle: John O’Reilly reflects on this fundamental organizing tool, and how to do it rightDate: December 18, 2018Notes: Addendum, from organizing.work: This piece was written by a former member of the IWW, who quit the organization after being asked to by a member whom he had sexually assaulted....
Dua Lipa, Sir Elton John, Sir Ian McKellen and Florence Welch are among a list of stars calling on the prime minister to update copyright laws in a way that protects them from artificial intelligence. A letter signed by more than 400 British musicians, writers and artists, addressed to Sir Keir Starmer, says failing to...
Glenn Campbell BBC Scotland Political Editor Getty Images John Swinney’s decision not to support the legislation could sway come undecided MSPs First Minister John Swinney has said he will not support a bill which would allow assisted dying in Scotland. Legislation to allow terminally-ill people to take their own life is being put forward at...
Angus Cochrane BBC Scotland News PA Media John Swinney moved the announcement forward ahead of next year’s Scottish Parliament elections NHS Scotland will deliver an extra 100,000 appointments in GP surgeries over the next year in a bid to end the 08:00 “lottery”, First Minister John Swinney has pledged. The SNP leader made the announcement...
“It’s always in you, as a football coach and manager that I was previously before going into that, it’s always in you. “Whether I could have got back in, it was up in the air really. Brendan Rodgers, who I’ve got a really good relationship with and respect him so much, he’s taught me so...
Celtic forward Daizen Maeda is the PFA Scotland player of the year while Falkirk’s John McGlynn has won the managers’ award for the second year running. Japan international Maeda, 27, has scored 33 goals and provided 12 assists in a stellar season for the Scottish Premiership champions. It is the ninth time in 11 years...
John Eustace’s relegation rescue mission at Derby County was one he took on with Premier League ambitions in mind. He freely admitted on his first day in the job that he had taken a “huge risk” by leaving a Blackburn Rovers side that were in the play-off places at the time to instead try to...
A number of years ago when I read George Woodcock’s classic history of Anarchism, I found the thinking he described quite attractive. I spent some time considering how compatible anarchism would be with my Christian pacifism. I have believed it would be, but never quite found time to pursue the issue in more depth. At...
Three-time winner Mark Williams held off a spirited John Higgins fightback to win a Crucible classic 13-12 on the black as he reached the semi-finals of the World Championship. Resuming at 8-8 on Wednesday, Higgins was initially left to rue costly misses in each of the first four frames as winner Williams reeled off all...
Four-time world champion John Higgins took advantage of some mistakes from Mark Williams to lead 5-3 after the first session of their World Championship quarter-final. This tie features two of the sport’s all-time greats and two thirds of snooker’s legendary ‘Class of 92’ trio, which also includes Ronnie O’Sullivan. Williams, 50, became the oldest man...
When Critchley was appointed in October, many Hearts fans had never heard of the former Liverpool youth coach. Sure, he had managed Queens Park Rangers and Blackpool (on two separate occasions) but remained pretty much an unknown quantity. Chief executive officer Andrew McKinlay refuted suggestions Critchley was the club’s second choice because talks had broken...
Three brothers from Cheshire have driven all the way from Land’s End to John O’ Groats in a tiny bus built in the 1940s for seaside children’s rides. James, Andrew and Will Emerton took it in turns to drive the miniature petrol-powered bus, which is about 1m (3ft) tall and 2.5m (8ft) long. It has...
England: Sing; Dow, Jones, Heard, MacDonald; Harrison, Hunt; Botterman, Atkin-Davies, Muir, Talling, Ward, Aldcroft (capt), Feaunati, Matthews. Replacements: Cokayne, Clifford, Bern, Galligan, Burton, L Packer, Aitchison, Rowland. France: Bourgeois; Grisez, M Menager, Vernier, Arbwy; Arbez, Bourdon; Brosseau, Bigot, Khalfaoui, M Feleu (capt), Fall-Raclot, Escudero, Champon, T Feleu. Replacements: Riffonneau, Mwayembe, Bernadou, Zago, Berthoumieu, Maka, Chambon,...
An emotional John Higgins says he “was in tears” on the morning of his first round match at the World Snooker Championship. Higgins’ father-in-law suffered a heart attack last week and BBC Snooker presenter Seema Jaswal consoled the player after his 10-7 win against Joe O’Connor. READ MORE: Emotionally ‘drained’ Higgins defeats O’Connor to advance...