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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Lifestyle
How do sportsmen deal with ageing, other than raging against the dying of the legs?
11 June 2015
Left Field.
Lifestyle
The Pietersen poll delusion, reading the election, and a tour of Tony Cozier’s Barbados
28 May 2015
Left Field.
Politics
Cameron was supposed to be a caddish charmer – but he turned out to be a steady pragmatist
07 May 2015
Left field.
Lifestyle
Could West Indies cricket, once so fearsome, soon be closed for business?
04 May 2015
Cricket.
Cultural Capital
Clever novelists know how to write a story. It’s the clever-clever ones who don’t
30 April 2015
Left field.
Politics
In political debate as in sport, practice doesn't make perfect: it makes for boring
16 April 2015
Left Field.
The marketplace can be a civilising force, but only when there is no “bagging area”
26 March 2015
Left field.
Lifestyle
England have been a poor one-day side in cricket for years – now they're abject
13 March 2015
Left field.
Lifestyle
The secret to performing at your peak? Deciding which of the voices in your head is talking sense
11 March 2015
Left field.
Politics
We wouldn’t go to an amateur dentist so why are we suspicious of professional politicians?
25 February 2015
Polishing the surface.
Lifestyle
How Novak Djokovic can make you a better friend, colleague and spouse
19 February 2015
Making our worst less bad.
Lifestyle
No family ties, no emotional inheritance: who would want “perfect” social mobility?
10 February 2015
Left field.
Lifestyle
We live in the “acceleration society”: the less you achieve, the more important it is to look busy
28 January 2015
Left Field.
Lifestyle
Ed Smith: Black tie used to be about dressing up, now it’s a precursor to throwing up
22 December 2014
We are on a serious bender.
Lifestyle
Ed Smith: for some coaches it’s not about improving sporting skills but about moulding people
11 December 2014
Left Field.

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