http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/857936372 Rope-A-Dope In October 1974, Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman for the World Heavyweight Championship, in Kinshasa, Zaire. The contest was advertised as The Rumble In The Jungle. The fight confounded all expectations. Whilst the first round was conventional enough, in the second – much to the consternation of his own team – Ali […]
I once voted for Led Zeppelin. I’m not proud of it now, but it seemed a decent option at the time. When I did this, the previous few years had seen two general elections and a referendum on continued membership of the European Community. What faced me then was a local authority election for a safe seat, which […]
Following the racist comments made earlier this month by Donald Trump about a US judge of Mexican heritage, New Republic’s Jeet Heer tweeted this: As you can see from his tweet, Heer is both a thoughtful commentator and an entertaining one. What the wit couldn’t obscure, though, is that the notion that Trump might in fact be for real […]