In the last 10 years – more particularly the last five – an extraordinary change has come over them. The scoreline would have given the impression of overwhelming English superiority, despite the equality of two tries for each side This would have pleased the Twickenham spectators no end On the whole they were not pleased [...]

It takes a lot to get to No 1: hard work, discipline and talent,” the Swede said. “There’s obviously a question about someone who has had most of his success on one surface and has not had as much success in the Grand Slam events as perhaps some other players ranked below him,” he said.Even [...]

Pilcom expects to gross $100m (pounds 66.6m) in all – not the Olympics, but not bad. The votes of those associate members look cheap.The row over Australia and the West Indies only emphasises the gulf between the old cricket order and the new one. After Saturday’s last-ditch ICC meeting in Calcutta, one dejected Pilcom convener [...]

The Weather Channel may be, like most American television weather forecasting, uninspiring to look at but, boy, does it have a story to tell. And that’s it.In part, the station has achieved a level of profitability that is the envy of Cedric Brown because Americans are, if anything, even more weather- obsessed than we are [...]

Openness and debate are vital prerequisites if we are to have any hope of charting our way through it.. I was listening to the highly entertaining Postcard from Gotham on Radio 4 on Saturday and heard Christopher Hitchens launch into a funny story about Alan Coren and first of all, as a precaution, ask Joe [...]

Perhaps, as rumour has it, some of the top Sinn-Feiners are on the IRA Army Council Perhaps, as others whisper, there has been a growing apart. But they have always ducked and weaved when they have been questioned about the IRA….”
True. But he then went on: “Sinn Fein must decide whether they are a front [...]