This summer of sport can provide moments of inspiration at a time when country’s future feels like a blur – Telegraph.co.uk

The expensively reared among you will know the social ‘season’ in sport encompasses the Boat Race, Henley, polo, Wimbledon, Cowes, ‘the Lord’s Test match’ and £50m football transfers.

Not really. The last of those is merely the ‘ker-ching’ soundtrack that now accompanies the sporting summer: once a fixture of the London social calendar, now a colossal, rolling entertainment industry that keeps us distracted from political mayhem. 

On the global agency wires today, bulletins with London, Southport and Nottingham datelines dominate the sports news. The Wimbledon sweep-up, Open Championship previews and second England-South Africa Test inquests fill the screen. On Sunday alone, it was possible in Britain to watch Roger Federer win his eighth Wimbledon men’s singles title, Lewis Hamilton take the British Grand Prix, Chris Froome retain the Tour de France’s yellow jersey (from across the channel,…