Italy. 0 England 1 Bonucci 67′ Shaw 2’ Italy win 3-2 on penalties. Shaw hits a half-volley from Trippier cross for quickest ever goal in European Final and put England in front. Gareth Southgate brought in Kieran Trippier for Bukayo Saka. England failed to clear the corner and allowed one header to…
Novak Djokovic equals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal with 20 Grand Slam titles. Djokovic wins sixth Wimbledon 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Berrettini, with a huge forehand keeps him in the game. A second championship point now for Djokovic saved by Berrettini by hanging in and closes into volley. Deuce. Berrettini is showing lot of frustration,…
Copa America Cup Argentina 1 Brazil 0 Di Maria 22’ Argentina beat defending champions Brazil 1-0 in Rio’s Maracana stadium in the Copa America final, breaking a 28-year-old spell since they last won the competition. It has been 15 years since Messi represented Argentina at a major tournament and after four World Cups and six…
“Secreet Wonderland Lovers of waterways, Lovers of boats and birds, Lovers of unusual gardens..Meanwhile Gardens has all and more….. When you fancy a little stroll where you can see water and sloping grassy hills together with moored narrow boats – sometimes complete with a cat, sporting flowers and immensely artistic painted titles plus bikes, and…
Ashleigh Barty beats Karolina Pliskova to win her maiden Wimbledon title and became the first Australian women’s champion for 41 years. Barty took early lead by winning first 14 points in a 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3 win on the 50th anniversary of idol Evonne Goolagong Cawley’s maiden win here. “This is incredible. It took a…
Ciaran Thapar, a youth worker in South London, highlights the sharp end of Britain’s serious life of youth violence epidemic which the media turns into statistics of knife crime. At the secondary school in Elephant and Castle, a vulnerable, pitiful boy named Freddie is permanently excluded, after being threatened he brought a bread knife to…
Jan-Werner Muller, political philosopher and a German teaching history and political philosophy for Princeton University, in his latest Democracy Rules, gives a brisk account about the state of liberal democracy. As the cold war ended the hopes for democracy’s rapid spread to non-democracies dwindled. Concern for its health grew amid backsliding in existing democracies notably …
Funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps by 49-yar-old famed Vanity Fair writer and New York Times-bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales asks who to blame for the modern dating malaise:tech companies. Jo Sales award-winning journalist and single…
“ WILD GOOSE” – A NEW NOVEL BY VERY ESTABLISHED WRITER AND POET – SALLY EVANS Sally is a poet working in long and formal styles. She was editor of Poetry Scotland broadsheet 1997-2018, and hosted the popular Callander Poetry Weekends that ran for nearly 20 years. She has published poetry widely in magazines and books, translated…
