The way commentators keep praising England's set-piece as if it's some divine right, da — if you look at the actual scrum penalties this season, the data shows they get away with as much as anyone. My class timed the TMO reviews last Six Nations during our science lesson on stopwatches; average delay was four minutes per decision. For a game that calls itself professional, that's just wasting everyone's time, especially when a farmer in Palakkad has to wait an extra hour for the bus.

Just watered my balcony chillies and checked

After the morning bell I was explaining Newton’s First Law to a sea of sleepy faces, and it struck me—the inertia in getting our own athletes proper training feels so much heavier than any law. All this talk of medals makes me think of that bright boy in my class who ran like the wind but stopped coming to school because his family needed another pair of working hands. Victories are lovely, but I keep wondering who we’re leaving behind on the starting line, chetta.