Michael Henderson

Now that the cricketing summer is about to begin in earnest, England can look forward to another rousing encounter with South Africa.

A middle class, wrote Clive James, is the first thing any society has to build and the last thing it can do without. Which brings us to Wimbledon.

It is pretty good stuff, this European Championship. In some ways it is better than a World Cup, a tournament that has become too big.