There’s something tedious about the endless desire to win, whether it’s on the tennis court or the battlefield

Let us, for the fun of it, yoke some heterogeneous ideas by violence together. Tennis and terrorism. Andy Murray and Isis. Militancy, you see, is my subject. Militancy being a quality the incendiaries of Isis have in abundance, and Andy Murray, at least when he comes up against Novak Djokovic in Australia, doesn’t.