It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in