Tom Watson: My Dirty Life & Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tower of Chiesa di Ognissanti, originally uploaded by Tom Watson. Another photo from Florence, from the balcony of my hotel room. I loved the light in this shot - the 13th century church is where Botticelli is buried and includes...
Malcolm Clarke Labour (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Herman van Rompuy is now virtually assured of the position as the new EU high commissioner. Tony Blair did not get the job apparently because other leaders feared he would overshadow them. You can definitely see their point, although it certainly waters down the post when Van Rompuy is selected because of his comparatively low profile. A cynic might say this is a post without power. Blair can now continue...
Tom Watson MP (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A new Facebook group on copyright reform set up. More background can be found here and here.
Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By John Ballard This is too long to tweet and too short to blog, but too good to miss. Tom Watson riffs on the Palin phenomenon. Journalistic poetry. ...Newsweek went with the full Joan on its cover this week, fronting essays by Evan Thomas and Christopher Hitchens, pieces that are also accompanied by a photo of a Palin doll dressed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Anti-bullying? Anti-cyber-bullying? Anti-homophobic bullying? All the good ideas are taken. Maybe I could just symbolically apologise for something Nestyn, Saturday night. Feel like an outcast. In 2003, 500 people watched me switch on the winterval lights (theme: Glad Tidings from Iraq). This year, 20 turned up, including my agent and a couple of tramps. By the time I'd said a few words about Christmas...
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
In a recent radio interview, Labour MP Keith Vaz again took videogames to task. Vaz thinks that rating information on the front of games should be larger, reports GI.biz , and also adopt health warnings currently found on packs of smokes: If you look to the packaging of an 18-rated videogame, it's [the size of] a tiny 10p coin. What it should be is the same as cigarettes - it should be splashed across...
Golf Blogger (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Even after his near victory at age 59, Tom Watson was at the end of the line at the Open Championship. Royal and Ancient rules—designed to keep the Major competitive—had set the age of 60 as the final year of eligibility for former champions. So the 2010 Open would be…
Buzzin Golf (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A rule change in the British Open means that a top ten finish by a former champion in any of the previous five Opens, will automatically qualify them for a place in the following years tournament. The change of rules has been made to accommodate this years Open runner up Tom Watson, who under the previous [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
GOLF DIGEST:FIVE-TIMES FORMER champion Tom Watson will be able to play in the British Open beyond next year after the exemption rule was amended by the Royal and Ancient golf club yesterday.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
THE performances by Tom Watson and Greg Norman in the last two Open Championships have led the R&A to introduce a new exemption category ahead of next year's St Andrews ev
21stCenturyFix.org (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I picked this up from Tom Watson's Twitter feed just now : Together the press, all commercial broadcasters, film, book publishing and music industries must now work together to find a new business model with the Search Engines. The latter, the aggregators, think it is ok to enjoy the use of all your valuable intellectual property and ad revenues for little or no return. And for those who think this...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Tom Watson will be able to go on playing in the Open beyond next year's championship at St Andrews.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) Tom Watson's place in the next five British Opens is safe after the Royal & Ancient's decision to change one of its exemption rules. The 60-year-old five-time British Open champion finished runnerup this year but would have lost his exemption status because of the R&A's age rules. But golf's governing body outside the United States said Monday it has amended one of...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Tom Watson's place in the next five British Opens is safe after the Royal & Ancient's decision to change one of its exemption rules. The 60-year-old five-time British Open champion finished runner-up this year but would have lost his exemption status because of the R&A's age rules. But golf's governing body outside the United States said Monday it has amended one of its rules so that former...
Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Tom Watson's stirring run at the 2009 British Open led organizers to alter qualification rules, allowing him an exemption into the tournament for five years....
The last article published by a user on Tom Watson :
bsalmons | 21/07/2009
Tom Watson nearly pulled it off at the British Open. If he won, would the masses have cared even though Tiger Woods wasn’t involved? It would have been one of the five greatest stories in the history of sports. And in terms of sheer unpredictable, mind-boggling accomplishments, it might have been No. 1. Who gave Watson a chance to even contend, much less putt for the title on the 72nd hole? Chaminade
Videos