In spring 1953, Britain was looking forward. After the trauma of the war and its aftermath, people were no longer focused simply on surviving. Thanks in part to the postwar settlement and welfare stat

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Three wins in six days Down Under for British sprinters, reports Adam Becket

This baker’s son achieved what every other hotblooded Stuttgart youngster could only dream of doing during West Germany’s post-war Economic Miracle: to race for Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. Herrmann was

I’ve been very lucky in that, for most of my life, I have known what I wanted to do, job-wise. Not exactly born with the knowledge, but laser-focused on it once I realised, some time in the mid-’80s,

If you spend a couple of hours with Nick Fry – as I did recently – you quickly grasp two things. The first is that he is almost constitutionally incapable of self-aggrandisement. The second is that th