Earlier this year I was on vacation in Kerala, India. Over rice and curry and Kingfisher longnecks I got to talking to a Russian bloke. He was ex-military and the conversation drifted to recent geopolitical events involving Russia and the West. He was adamant that the Russian media was reporting facts and that Western media(…)

When I was living in the UAE and UK, boxing stories featured quite heavily in daily newspapers. Many lead stories were fight reports or breakdowns of upcoming fights. Even fighters who were from outside those countries would have stories written about them. In Australia a lot of people don’t know fighters from outside Australia, which(…)