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Concluding that sport generally and tennis in particular just don’t warrant all the fuss.

Events in Honduras, where the supposedly ‘hugely popular’ President Manuel Zelaya was ousted from power by the armed forces that were instructed to do so by the country’s Supreme Court which ruled that he was corrupt as hell, sent a shiver down the spines of certain leaders around the world. It is all very well for them to talk about democracy and the importance of having a system of checks and balances but it is completely another thing when this [...]

Adam Lovejoy writes: Let’s get this straight about Iran: there is no struggle there between hardliners and forces of democracy. If you believe that, you can go on twitter and tweet there on the subject of elections in Iran endlessly. The struggle is between two groups within the ruling Iranian regime for power. And oil, of course. And the affections of the Revolutionary Guards who decide who runs things in Iran. Just like it was in Russia in 1991 when [...]