Comings, goings and those that keep going
As one year ends and another-secular or lunar- begins, it is customary to reflect on those who have departed in the previous twelve...
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lydiajulian1
Dec 29, 20227 min read
Destiny, destiny- who is to know?
As a new year beckons, it is inevitable that individuals and societies consider what their destiny may be in the months ahead....
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lydiajulian1
Nov 30, 20227 min read
And it's an end-of-year wrap!
This week Canada scored its first goal in World Cup history in Qatar and won its first ever Davis Cup in tennis in Malaga. The World Cup...
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lydiajulian1
Nov 1, 20226 min read
Transitions- all aboard?
Was it only eighteen months ago that the world was living in a state of Covid anxiety without a war in Ukraine, England’s Queen was...
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lydiajulian1
Oct 12, 20227 min read
Sixty years on-from the Cuban missile crisis to a crisis of faith
In one of the final scenes of the movie, The Queen, her late majesty is seen encouraging Tony Blair to conduct their weekly audience...
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lydiajulian1
Sep 12, 202210 min read
Changes of crowns and games of thrones across the Atlantic
Well, the last thing I should have thought was that the 2022 US Open might be another predictable chapter in the game’s history. Too many...
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lydiajulian1
Aug 25, 20228 min read
The US Open is about to start and when it closes much that is grand will be gone...
Can you have two epiphanies in a week when writing about politics and tennis? As we prepare for the beginning of the final Grand Slam of...
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lydiajulian1
Jul 21, 20226 min read
Wimbledon Wrap!
It’s all in the timing. Maybe we have always known that. Imagine if Wimbledon had been held this week. Yesterday, London recorded its...
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lydiajulian1
Jul 8, 20229 min read
"As seeds are sown and blown so they shall reap"
Last year I watched Ash Barty win the Wimbledon Ladies’ title in a motel room in Wagga Wagga. This year I shall be watching the Ladies’...
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lydiajulian1
Jun 27, 20229 min read
We focus on Centre Court, but everywhere else the centre seems hard to find!
Wimbledon starts tonight. All eyes of tennis fans will turn to its famous Centre Court whose flawless grass surface, only played on in...
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lydiajulian1
Jun 7, 20228 min read
A Platinum Monarch, a new PM, painful Post-Mortems in America and Parisian tennis matches
Few probably realise that the French Open has provided Central America with its first ever Grand Slam champion. Marcelo Arevalo from El...
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lydiajulian1
May 22, 20228 min read
So, what do we now know?
When, in a fortnight’s time, the finals of the French Open are played the respective champions will be awarded their trophies because...
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lydiajulian1
May 19, 20226 min read
Forty eight hours to go!
Some days you remember more than others. 21st August 1983 is one of those days. In peaceful, democratic Australia, the newly elected...
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lydiajulian1
May 8, 20227 min read
Less than a fortnight to go and it's not a game- this is our future!
With less than two weeks until polling day in Australia, we can be more certain about events after the election than its outcome. We know...
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lydiajulian1
Apr 13, 202211 min read
Nous tous! Australia and France go to the polls and then we focus on Roland Garros
The political terms left and right wing were coined when what became known as the Tennis Court oath was taken during the French...
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lydiajulian1
Feb 2, 20229 min read
The Greatest Open-Australian-of all Time?
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony”. So said Margaret Thatcher, quoting St. Francis of Assisi, upon entering No. 10 Downing...
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lydiajulian1
Jan 12, 20226 min read
Guess who's coming to the tennis?
The question is, would the character played by the much loved and recently departed Sidney Poitier in his 1963 movie be more welcome to...
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lydiajulian1
Jan 6, 20225 min read
Djokovic v the World: no vaccination, a contested exemption, a denied visa and a court appeal!
It just keep’s happening! A new year and the overlap of politics, world affairs and Grand Slam tennis continues. One of my holiday reads...
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lydiajulian1
Jan 1, 20226 min read
Tremors!
It says something about the potent ubiquity of Covid-19 that it continues for most to be the only topic in town as we begin the third...
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lydiajulian1
Nov 29, 20216 min read
Two end of year playoffs, a summit in Glasgow and a ‘sext’ for afters…
So, the tennis year is officially over, well apart from the Davis Cup which has become such a desiccated version of its one great self,...
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