Over the years I have experienced some poor customer service – and not all of it in the former soviet republics (“service without a smile”). Some of the best has been in the USA – and not the “have a good day” or “missing you already” stuff, but the fact that even in a basic [...]
The best way to take a football penalty is to shoot straight down the middle as goal-keepers tend to move to their right or to their left. At least that’s the conclusion of a group of economists who studied penalty-taking in the French and Italian leagues using a branch of mathematics called (perhaps appropriately) game [...]
“Have you let kids take over your life?” asked The Times’ Janice Turner – appropriately in the paper’s “Body + Soul” section – as the gist of the article was that they had done just that. As I read the article I was agreeing more and more and getting quite annoyed. (It was in half-term [...]
