In an extended rant against sports perceived as rich men's playthings, a Guardian Leninspart, Steven Wells, takes a swing at Tiger Woods' favoured game, telling us that "Golf is the quicksand at the end of the existentialist rainbow, sucking the unwary ageing hipster into a half-life of gin-pissed conversations about house prices, airport car parking and immigrants."
Strange how writers who regard themselves as reactionaries can't resist the word existentialist - or the mention of gin.
I haven't seen a contribution in The Guardian before by Steven Wells and I suspect may not see one again, so let's savour another morsel: "Personally I am in favour of banning all activities that give the rich pleasure - hunting, shooting, fishing, skiing, yachting, rowing, polo and rugby union - for the sole reason that they give the rich pleasure."
That should go down a bomb with toffy-nosed gits like Jack Charlton, Franz Klammer, Ellen MacArthur, Steve Redgrave and the natives of Bridgend's Brewery Field or The Gnoll, Neath.
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