
Philip George, former international badminton player and author of Racket Boy, resides in Tuscany, Italy. He is the founder of the Philip George Foundation, dedicated to empowering underprivileged youth through education and sports initiatives. www.philgeorgeracketboy.com
How one perceptive teacher, Miss Vijaya, taught me that education goes far beyond textbooks through humour, encouragement, and a schoolboy’s secret reading of Playboy.
Tuscany offers a unique driving experience through its stunning landscapes. The journey delves into the cultural nuances of Italy, inspired by E.M. Forster's observations, embracing both the beauty and delightful contradictions of the region
Malayan Emergency, officially "the Emergency," was a brutal British counter-insurgency campaign from 1948-1960, primarily driven by economic exploitation of rubber and tin rather than anti-communism
Jannik Sinner won his maiden Wimbledon title defeating two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz
I recently travelled from Tuscany and am now reluctantly embedded in the North
Welcome to liberal authoritarianism. A world in which “community cohesion” became a euphemism for cowardice, and “diversity and inclusion” became a shield for institutional paralysis
Would Trump exist without Buckley vs. Vidal? Not in the same way. Without the model of the televised ideological cage match, Trump would still be hawking steaks and shouting at apprentices
A colourful philosophy of life, law, and living before the kick
Donald Trump’s obsession with “land seizures” and “white genocide” in South Africa isn’t new. It’s a cocktail of half-baked Breitbart headlines, Fox News fever dreams, and Elon Musk tweets stirred together and served warm under a Confederate flag
A postcard from the foot of the glorious mountain range in northern Tuscany, Italy
In the twilight hours of print journalism and the dawn of digital storytelling, the tectonic shifts brought by AI are now unmistakable
Born in Chicago to a French father and an Italian mother, and later a missionary in Peru where he earned citizenship, Pope Leo XIV embodies a mosaic of cultures
Piano, the Italian word for slow, was one of Pope Francis’s favourite words. He wanted a gentle touch to heal everything and everyone from refugees to sexual minorities to climate change and the death penalty
From Buttermere to Garfagnana, one man’s journey through faith, fracture, and fragile harmony
India chose the wrong route. It chased glitter instead of grit. It preferred applause in London to silent reform in the villages. It clung to the colonial umbilical cord, addicted to validation, unable to reimagine its own worth
China is playing its hand masterfully, underwriting global order not with tanks, but with trade, infrastructure, and cold, calculated diplomacy
Manikarnika Dutta has the world behind her now—universities, lawyers, colleagues willing to fight. But the feeling in that moment, when the deportation order lands like a guillotine, is universal
Air India has exposed the appalling state of travel etiquette among Indians and their deep-rooted cultural apathy towards public spaces
The £18 trillion figure is not plucked from the air. It is an estimate of the economic benefits Britain reaped from centuries of enslaving millions, calculated against the suffering, destruction, and generational disadvantage inflicted on those it enslaved
Somewhere, beneath the brashness and the noise, beneath the TikTok/ Instagram inanities and the tabloid vitriol, there is still an England worth holding onto
The India I once knew—a land of mystique and discovery—has transformed into a village fair masquerading as a world-class destination, where rules are bent, standards are low, and the chaos is as palpable as the heat on the pavement
Conversations I accidentally overheard... from notes in my diaries, spanning continents and decades
For a week, I have been back in Blighty, staying in Lytham, slipping into old habits like a well-worn coat. And one such habit—one that has never left me—is the simple pleasure of sitting in a darkened cinema
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