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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...

Two Grand Slams down. Two to go.  The first is Wimbledon, the Grand Slam that is primus inter pares. Yet the sound and fury of politics...

What a relief that there are certainties we can rely on in addition to death and taxes. We can always look forward to Rupert Murdoch...

Many might argue that the French people and nation have never quite recovered from the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire. Five Republics...

Last weekend I was treated to time in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.  An underrated city, often overlooked by being in the...