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‘Writing a book is tough but being a pro is harder’: Conor Niland on tennis’s periphery and reframing success
Conor Niland laughs and, without hesitating, rejects the idea that he misses the intensity of competition which shaped and sometimes deformed his life as a professional tennis player who reached a high of No 129 in the world. “No,” he exclaims. “I found myself waking up with butterflies in my …
The alternative 2024 sports awards: quotes, gaffes and animal cameos
Player of the year
Keeper
Lewis Patching
–saying sorry in March
after signing on loan for Rushden & Diamonds, conceding four,headbutting a fan
in the bar and being sacked on the same day. “I was disappointed how the game panned out … I’d like to …Janey Godley remembered by Nicola Sturgeon
Very early in the pandemic, somebody in my office said, “Have you seen these voiceover videos of your Covid briefings that Janey Godley is doing? They’re really, really funny.’” So I watched a couple of them and they really, really were.
Obviously, Covid was such a hard and dark time …
Ukraine war briefing: Russia vows to retaliate after state media reportedly blocked on Telegram in EU
Russia has vowed to retaliate after the channels of its state media were apparently blocked on the popular Telegram social media platform in the EU.
On Sunday the channels of Ria Novosti news agency, Rossiya 1, Pervyi Kanal and NTV television, and Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspapers were …
AI tools may soon manipulate people’s online decision-making, say researchers
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools could be used to manipulate online audiences into making decisions – ranging from what to buy to who to vote for – according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.
The paper highlights an emerging new marketplace for “digital signals of intent” – known as the …
‘A Model Murder’: the 1954 trial that gripped Sydney takes to the stage
In 1954, when 22-year-old Sydney model Shirley Beiger went on trial for the alleged murder of her live-in lover, hundreds of spectators, many of them women, queued outside Darlinghurst’s courthouse with sandwiches, Thermos flasks and even babies, hoping for a seat.
“They were yelling, ‘God bless you, Shirl’,” says award-winning …
Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly
When the scientist and inventor Prof Archibald Montgomery Low predicted “a day in the life of a man of the future” one century ago, his prophesies were sometimes dismissed as “ruthlessly imaginative”.
They included, reported the London Daily News in 1925, “such horrors” as being woken by radio alarm clock; …
‘I deleted news apps’: Guardian readers on how to stop doomscrolling
Doomscrolling happens to the best of us. Algorithms across social platforms are finely tuned to feed you content and posts that keep you locked in. It can be hard to pull yourself away even when you’re consuming a barrage of news about the state of the world online.
While we …
Michael Mosley remembered by Dr Phil Hammond
I met Michael Mosley in 1995, when he asked me to audition to present a TV series he was creating called
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor
. He wanted someone who wasn’t afraid to take down their own profession and I seemed to fit the bill. I liked him immediately, …Nonfiction is a strange, alchemical business. In the knowledge that a good writer can make any subject sing, one of the books I’m looking forward to most in 2025 is
The Season: A Fan’s Story
(W&N, November), in which Helen Garner watches her grandson, Amby, play Aussie rules football …