Dan Travis: 3 books

A Manifesto for UK sport during the London Olympic year. In this report, Dan Travis looks at why the state of sporting competition in the UK is not as strong as it could be, what's to blame and what we can do about it. Holding onto the competitive ethic is not only possible but desirable. Dan Travis is a tennis coach, speaker and writer on sport and sporting competition.

Speaking in the wake of last month's tragic spate of suicides in north Belfast, Irish President Mary McAleese blamed the peace process for failing young people in Northern Ireland, parts of which, she said, remained 'stuck in a time warp' of sectarianism and paramilitarism, where, in...

Outside East Asia, very few people know where the Senkaku islands are. But inside East Asia, the Senkaku prompt great bitterness between Japan, China and Taiwan. At stake is the national pride of each country, which believes that it alone owns them. At stake also are each country’s hopes that it...