Paul Routledge

‘Conversation Piece’, 1997, by Andrew Festing, Marylebone Cricket Club, featuring: Geoffrey Boycott (Yorkshire), A.P.E. Knott and D.L. Underwood (Kent); middle row, F.J. Titmus (Middlesex), R. Illingworth (Yorkshire and Leicestershire), D.L. Amiss and M.J.K. Smith (Warwickshire), front row, J.H. Edrich (Surrey) and D.B. Close (Yorkshire and Somerset); the first conversation piece is in the background

The greatest living Yorkshireman

Paul Routledge 4 October 2014 9:00 am

After 13 barren years Yorkshire is back at the top of county cricket, where Geoffrey Boycott believes it has a…

Comforting domesticity: Alan Johnson with his stepdaughter Natalie and daughter Emma

I believe in yesterday

Paul Routledge 27 September 2014 8:00 am

Alan Johnson’s first volume of memoirs, This Boy, is still in the bestsellers’ list, but the Stakhanovite postman has made…

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