Why Murray Couldn't Win

Listening to Martina Navratilova on Desert Island Discs one couldn't help be moved by her spirit and the story of how a girl from a Marxist hell hole Communist Checslovakia escaped to America and was removed as if onto another planet with amazing shops and variety of food and the contrast between the drab prison of communism and the bright shiny lights of Capitalism could not have been more vivid or pronounced.It was just the icing on the cake when she chose Ayn Rand's Fountainhead as her book to take with her on the mythical island.That extraordinary novel is a handbook for winners and a cry against all the mediocrity that collectivism preaches and extolls.You cannot imagine the dour Andy Murray reading the Fountainhead far less understanding it.This country has schooled losers and failures for 60 years.Glorious failures are written into its dna.There are no winners,no competition,all must have prizes.See the grotesque spectacle of XFactor and the number of people who think they can sing because someone has told them so and because they deserve it.It takes a lot to turn a prosperous country into a economic and spiritual basket case but the Socilaists did it through the Welfare State and yesterday one more of its chickens came home to roost on the Wimbledon Centre Court.