Enter book title or author in the box below. This week Luvvies, stop moaning Middle-aged males who have done well out of subsidy want even more. But their apocalyptic imaginings of a world without culture do the arts no favours. This England Search archive Receive updates Enter your email address to receive regular updates about NS and related events. Both flummoxed and outflanked by football, cricket in Britain is at a low ebb.
Cricket is a national obsession.
In India, that is. Godfrey Evans died recently and the loving obituaries summoned up a mistily remembered age. When Denis Compton died in 1997, obituarists and feature writers hymned his presence and his passing in similar terms - a sportsman who captivated a nation, whose talent lit up austerity Britain. Somehow it is hard to imagine similar encomia to Alec Stewart or Mark Ealham. Cricket in the UK has become drab.