Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning chief sportswriter at The Times and an author of 15 books including The Meaning of Sport en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:12:19 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Simon Barnes Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-20T08:01:09Z Look, I’m sorry to be the most frightful bore, but thousands of species are rushing pell-mell towards extinction. I feel bad about bringing this to your attention. Perhaps it’s better if you don’t know. Perhaps it’s easier all round if I keep quiet about the fact that 17,921 species are threatened with extinction. Simon Barnes: Commentary Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-19T11:27:27Z Thierry Henry is a liar and a cheat. He is also a footballer, and he stands out from his fellow professionals as a sheep stands out in a flock of sheep. It is a a fact of life — footballers cheat. Simon Barnes Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-13T07:08:22Z Faithful readers of this space will recall that I recently paid a visit to an elephant corridor in Assam. This week I visited a dormouse corridor in Suffolk. Not quite so big, and not quite so dangerous, but just as important —certainly, if you happen to be a dormouse. Simon Barnes Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-05T04:25:30Z Rare birds are doing great. It’s the common birds that we need to worry about. Behind this apparent paradox lies one of the great problems of 21st-century life in the developed world. As we lose the common, the ambient, the next-door, so we lose ourselves, and our sense of who we are. Notebook: Simon Barnes Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-06T06:46:34Z We are the Millwall supporters of conservation. No one likes us, we don’t care. I used these words to celebrate the launch of a new conservation charity called Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC). I have the somewhat unexpected honour to be a patron of this organisation not for my expertise in herpetology, but for my natural sympathy with the underfrog.