“His judgement was questioned repeatedly, he suffered numerous setbacks and he made important enemies among those in power. Yet somehow his indomitable spirit kept seeing him return.”
Daring, Defiant and Daft
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cricket
Levelling the pitch?
I have played on far more fields that aren’t level than ones that are. What matters is not the lie of the land, but the tea interval and the half-time whistle.
Imran Khan and a matter of principle
Imran Khan, the ousted prime minister of Pakistan, is not someone whose tenure in office I know much about. Equally, my knowledge of the country extends little beyond awareness that its history has been of much turmoil and foreign intervention, and that many of its politicians have not died quietly in their beds. But I have worked with Imran and the impression I gained of the former captain of...