The Cafe
Economics of dependence
When the judge is
your enemy, you have
nothing to lose
Michael Elcock
Bad words
Rear Window
Three men of sport (1)
From Frank Moran’s ‘Golfers’ Gallery’ (1946) on the Scottish golfer Andra Kirkcaldy
Andra used to have a freely expressed contempt for the card-and-pencil golf and was wont to declare that the matches were the ‘life’s bluid o’ the game’. He was certainly a doughty fighter in the money matches.
His reply to a member of the R and A, who asked him if he was not nervous when playing for a big stake before so many people, sums up the Kirkcaldy attitude and character: ‘Nervous men should never back themselves. It would be like pickin’ their ain pockets. I never gave the crowd a thocht and the money only made me stick to the lead when it came my way’.
Andra, in short, was tough. The only time his nerves gave way, he used to say, was at Tel-el-Kebir.
Tomorrow:
Alan Morton
Would you mind
if I dribbled? Or would
you prefer me to move?
Six papers by young thinkers
1. Matthew Harper on disability
Matthew Harper of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust delivered this
paper at a recent Young Thinker of the Year event organised by the
Scottish Review team