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What’s the quip?: “Never trust a used car salesman or a specialist”. Well, maybe we will have to add meteorologists to the list. Last...

It is often said that adaptation is the key to biological survival and evolution. Many sporting codes have clearly taken that advice to...

Americans had their Presidential and Congressional elections  last November.  Australia will have its Federal election by the end of May....

After the rallies at a Grand Slam tournament finish, the reckoning and reflection begin. Who won and why? What were the highlights,...

If only history did not relentlessly seem to recycle events and moments! Only days after President Carter’s State funeral, we are...

If ever there was an example of humans rowing their metaphorical boats, “against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”, it...

Christians prepare for the celebration of Christmas during the season of Advent.  In an increasingly secular Australia, the faithless...

Before we know it the summer season of tennis will begin in Australia. Both Djokovic and Kyrgios, along with the World’s No.1 female...

Happy Birthday Mr. President!  Joe Biden is 82 today.  He is busy trying to carve out his lame duck legacy, even strolling away from the...

Get used to hearing much more about Grover Cleveland! Rarely mentioned amongst the pantheon of American Presidents, Cleveland served as...

Imagine a tennis match where two old combatants are preparing to recontest the final, having contested it four years before. Suddenly,...

So, the world keeps producing its jolts. The unrelenting reminders of change and mortality. Ethel Kennedy, Robert Kennedy’s widow, dies...

The Grand Slam year ends with a touch of John Donne like reflection. For the first time since 1988 the Men’s and Women’s singles...

When Novak Djokovic won the Olympic Gold Medal in Paris, he declared it was “his greatest achievement in tennis.”  Not an idle claim from...

It probably is a shock to all other than the most ardent of tennis fans that the US Open starts next Sunday with its qualifying rounds....

Today, 110 years ago, World War One begun. Arguably the defining moment of modern history, the Germans thought they could reach and...

Well, well, well. The inevitable has occurred. Joe Biden has succumbed to the relentless logic of politics. His party do not believe he...

If politics and human endeavour are about anything they concern the changes they bring to society. In  turn, societies adapt and change...

This time next week we will know our 2024 Wimbledon champions. Unlike recent political events, with the typical exception of the French,...

Does anyone go to work on a Friday anymore? In this post-Covid world the relative absence of foot and car traffic at the end of a...