Ask a number of young people who are eager to get into journalism why they want to, and the chances are a lot will say “Because I like writing” or “I like working with language”. Which may be true, but that’s not what makes a journalist. A journalist wants to be first...
The death of Queen Elizabeth II was always going to be a momentous event for the UK, at least symbolically – British monarchs have virtually no power, so a handover from one sovereign to another is more a change of figurehead and moral leadership than making any...
There’s been a belief in professional tennis over the past 40-50 years that grass is yesterday’s surface. Out of respect for Wimbledon’s heritage, grass is tolerated for 4-5 weeks a year with a handful of tournaments, but basically tennis these days is played on hard...
Over the past 10 days or so, I’ve had an old adage repeating itself in my head: ‘In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.’ In other words, it’s all relative. The past 10 days have been characterised by the saga of whether Novak Djokovic will be let into...
