KP

News junkie (politics especially), small business owner, mum, reader, writer, thinker!

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@F1GuyDan Agree. He is very good at Silverstone. Wasn't there a strategy mistake that cost him the year before or am I remembering wrong?

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@bellesglasgow Think you forgot to add Australia 🇦🇺

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@JoshButler Incredible 😲

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@QuentinDempster @LQuinlan4 I can't see the article but think Bradfield will be a loss to the coalition and teal gain. Boundaries redistributed and Fletcher isn't standing. Depends of course on who is pre selected for libs but don't see it as a lib hold.

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@OscarPiastri @ICC @CricketAus ❤️

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@ausvstheagenda Some names on here I never thought I would EVER agree with.....

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

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@lucymanning I always wondered who it was, the calls were dirty and I was terrified to answer the phone for a while there... maybe it was this guy or maybe it was completely random. I am so happy you did this, for yourself but also for all of us. Thank you.

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@lucymanning I am so glad you did this Lucy. Well done. I lived in UK 2009/10 and had mulitple calls of this nature, I reported it to the City of London police but told it was too hard to trace. I was very frightened at time. I left London for home in Aus soon after....

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@Colgo @ChrisMinnsMP I was at a bowlo recently with my 3 month old baby, asleep in the baby carrier strapped to me ... and I was refused service of a water and a coke no sugar bc of said rule.... ridiculous!

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@Leo_Puglisi6 It's not just teens - my little people LOVE you tube videos (of space ships and trains) and they are pre school age... is that now going to be illegal?

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@lewis_goodall Australia???? Was a couple years ago granted ... although fair to say Labour here on the nose atm.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: https://t.co/JQWy2gTfhs just dropped a new track titled "Yes She Can"—and yes, “She” is Kamala Harris.

This is the anthem America needs to hear right now.

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@MatthewBevan @andrewrparry

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@ally_sheehan @mdgoodwin827 We have something similar in Australia. Go read up on the Senate.

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@RoryStewartUK Welcome to the house and to Sydney! Wish I could be there! Love TRIP and am a local but have a newborn at home... so please come back!!

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@DanBox10 I am so sorry Dan. Strengh to you and your loved ones.

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@FastestPitStop @andrewrparry

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Rarely in life does something exceed all expectations. Sydney #metro delivered. Only sad that my train fanatic dad didn't live long enough to see it, he would have loved it! It's amazing. Good stuff NSW! Well done @GladysB and @ChrisMinnsMP

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@Peter_F_Ryan @abcnews @SydneyMetro So rare for something to exceed expectations but absolutely in awe. Simply amazing.