Football World Cup 2014
Diary
Can there be anything more perfect than early July in London, when the sun is shining, the sky a cloudless…
Barometer
The not-so-great charter David Cameron wants every child to be taught about Magna Carta. Some bits he might want to…
Barometer
Old world Brazil has struggled to get ready for the World Cup, even though it hosted it before, in 1950.…
The true gods of football
The World Cup has started, and the gods of football will be in their heaven for a whole month. Not…
Salmond’s secret weapon
Nothing makes Scots feel more Scottish than England playing in a World Cup
Diary
São Paolo It was back in 2001 that my good friend Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym ‘Bric’,…
