Regular readers, to whom I am eternally grateful, may recall that I wrote about a trip to the Sahara Marathon last February *. The various races were run through the refugee camps in south-west Algeria, which house around 200,000 Sahrawi … Read more

Publicists for heavyweight boxing world title fights have long perfected the art of the hyperbolic preview; this despite the fact that many of these bouts are contested by two superannuated tubs of lard. But Haile Gebrselassie v Josphat Menjo, over … Read more

It’s that time of the year for folk tales and fairy stories, notably the one about the jolly, red-suited old guy with the white whiskers, who rides across the sky in a sleigh pulled by reindeer. In the unlikely event … Read more