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We are told there are very few certainties except the oft quipped duo of death and taxes. For what seems the living memory of most the...

Halley’s comet have many across our stars once every 76 years. Its next scheduled appearance will be in 2061. Down here on earth there...

After the self-serving outpourings of Harry and Meghan and Novak Djokovic’s demonstrative implosion after the Australian Open Men’s...

As one year ends and another-secular or lunar- begins, it is customary to reflect on those who have departed in the previous twelve...

As a new year beckons, it is inevitable that individuals and societies consider what their destiny may be in the months ahead....

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...

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...

In one of the final scenes of the movie, The Queen, her late majesty is seen encouraging Tony Blair to conduct their weekly audience...

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...

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...

It’s all in the timing. Maybe we have always known that. Imagine if Wimbledon had been held this week. Yesterday, London recorded its...

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’...

Wimbledon starts tonight. All eyes of tennis fans will turn to its famous Centre Court whose flawless grass surface, only played on in...

Few probably realise that the French Open has provided Central America with its first ever Grand Slam champion. Marcelo Arevalo from El...

When, in a fortnight’s time, the finals of the French Open are played the respective champions will be awarded their trophies because...

Some days you remember more than others. 21st August 1983 is one of those days. In peaceful, democratic Australia, the newly elected...

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...

The political terms left and right wing were coined when what became known as the Tennis Court oath was taken during the French...

“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony”. So said Margaret Thatcher, quoting St. Francis of Assisi, upon entering No. 10 Downing...

The question is, would the character played by the much loved and recently departed Sidney Poitier in his 1963 movie be more welcome to...