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Matthew Engel has had a journalistic career of unusual variety over more years than he cares to remember: he covered the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the death of Princess Diana and the September 11 attacks.
He has also reported more than 70 different sports, from the World Cup soccer finals to the European tiddlywinks championship. He has edited 12 of the 144 editions of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, “the cricketers’ bible”, but is equally enthusiastic about baseball.
His latest work, Extracts from the Red Notebooks, is published by Macmillan. This is intended to raise money for the Laurie Engel Fund, set up in conjunction with the Teenage Cancer Trust in memory of his son, who died in 2005 aged 13. - -
Dispatch from Longtown, Cumbria
The Scottish town, the UK’s centre of livestock production, is enjoying a turnround after foot and mouth disease brought it to the brink of ruin in 2001
Livingstone appeals to market forces
The embattled incumbent’s alliance with his Green Party rival offers an option to voters weary of his regime and underlines his usage of new politics to avert defeat
Mass desertion
Abuse scandals and the attendant arguments about celibacy are issues that must permeate any sensible discussion about the future of the priesthood, writes Matthew Engel
Funny old names
Using insight, humour and a deceptively simple research tool – the telephone directory – C.M. Matthews traced the origins of British family names, writes Matthew Engel
Long divisions
An outsider might see the Protestant fixation with Garvaghy Road in Northern Ireland as the epitome of their utter inability to see the Catholic minority’s point of view, says Matthew Engel
Opposition’s attractions
The Conservatives’ lack of competence at criticising Labour should be blamed for the intellectually adrift and reluctant Brown government, writes Matthew Engel
The irreverent reverend
A clergyman who spoke of inconvenient truths on the hypocrisy of religion and society proves that there was a time when churchmen were far more fun, writes Matthew Engel
That was the year that was
The great public dramas of 1968, which happened from March to August, affected all those who heard the news even if they did not participate in them, writes Matthew Engel
The not so straight and narrow
Some countries may take more bribes than others, but intellectual corruption is universal. All one can do is try to stay on the right side of a very wavy line
Vices and virtues
In the pursuit of a balanced ticket it is certain, Matthew Engel believes, that at least one US presidential candidate will end up picking a hate-figure as running-mate
