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Ed Smith

Ed Smith is a journalist and author, most recently of Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters (Bloomsbury, £8.99). He is a former professional cricketer and played for both Middlesex and England. He is on Twitter as @EdSmithWriter. 

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Music and Performance
The ultimate seduction: revisiting the case of Wagner
09 April 2013

Wagner aimed to overthrow 19th-century silliness and replace it with a new "music drama".

Sport
If superstitions help you get in the zone then keep sharpening those pencils
27 March 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
There are many destinations, even if we are all travelling on the same open road
21 March 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
What sportsmen with Messiah complexes can learn from Iniesta’s espresso run
14 March 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Politics
The establishment is dead. Long live the establishment!
21 February 2013

It all depends who you speak to.

Sport
Success is all about timing: and sometimes, the harder task is not making a decision
21 February 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Ideas
Don't be beguiled by Orwell: using plain and clear language is not always a moral virtue
09 February 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
The truth won’t always out: Tiger would still be burning bright if he hadn’t crashed his car
31 January 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
The real losers in the Lance Armstrong affair are the writers and riders who first spoke out
18 January 2013

Many of those who inflated the Armstrong bubble will now capitalise on his confession.

Sci-Tech
Stop checking your smart phone – manners aren’t out of fashion yet
17 January 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

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