With their apparently identikit backgrounds and bland politicians' patter, the contest has sometimes seemed an incestuous choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. When even the promised fratricidal war between the Miliband brothers failed to take off, one newspaper cartoonist illustrated a caricature of the contestants with the caption: Who cares who wins?

The biggest satisfaction was to do the Kallang Wave again, after so many years, and it was even better as I waved with my son for the first time.

His shock announcement rocked the tennis world.

The explanatory report acknowledges that the result of the rule under the second indentation can appear arbitrary.