Katie Bolter.

Oh wow.

Tennis is full of noise.

Pressure.

Manifest.

Intensity.

But what really makes me feel alive?

It's the focus in that quiet.

A moment to breathe.

To reset.

To hydrate.

That's what really makes me feel alive.

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Good morning. It's three minutes after ten, and once again we find ourselves addressing

a slow collapse of all that we once thought valuable,

or all that we once perhaps even thought was inviable, stuff that just couldn't happen in this country.

A prime minister, repeatedly it would seem, misleading the House of Commons.

And yet this morning, a minister, perhaps predictably, Grant Shaps, although let's be honest, it could have been any one of them, couldn't it? Because to take a job in that cabinet, you have to leave your conscience and your moral compass at the door, so it could have been Nadim Zaharwee, who was debasing himself yesterday. It was Grant Shaps' turn today to defend the indefensible. It was, I think, and you'll forgive me for sometimes

getting the actual quote mixed up with the lyric from Lim Manuel Miranda's superlative musical.

It was Alexander Hamilton who said, if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

It's one of those phrases that sounds perfectly pithy, isn't it? Or pithily perfect, perhaps.

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