By all accounts, it’s been a rather crappy half year.
In the first instance, the lifetime hero for many of us left us less than a month ago. To me, and certainly many others, Muhammad Ali was not only the best boxer of ALL time - and will remain so - he also epitomised the rebelliousness of our youth.
He embodied the voice of anti-imperialism in his opposition to the war in Indochina. He echoed the voices of downtrodden black Americans, as did Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.