Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.