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May 25, 2012
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May 19, 2012
How aid got smarter
Academics, donors and some aid agencies have begun measuring what works. Development is becoming a science
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May 12, 2012
Take the plunge and emigrate
Emigration is probably the quickest way of improving your career prospects, both now and for your lifetime
- A life less ordinary Is emigration alluring or alienating?
- Minister raises financial bar for UK migrants
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FT MAGAZINE
May 5, 2012
A nation of pessimists
The French fear change because they have best way of life on earth
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COMMENT
May 4, 2012
The FA opts for compromise: a cosmopolitan Englishman
The new England football manager is cultured but lacks relevant qualifications
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May 3, 2012
The businesses that refuse to die
It is not unusual for companies to be consumed by economic crises or other calamities, but football clubs have an extraordinary capacity for survival
- Overview Eyes on the prize
- Interactive The world’s highest-earning sportsmen
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FT MAGAZINE
Apr 28, 2012
Why we follow football
Going to a match is one of the comforting rituals that carry you through life. Yet this ritual is poorly understood
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FT MAGAZINE
Apr 21, 2012
Why CEOs shouldn’t run the world
Running an economy – let alone a country – is of a different order of complexity to running a firm
- Simon Kuper Why the old schools still rule
- Simon Kuper Let’s lose the religious labels
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FT MAGAZINE
Apr 14, 2012
Why the old schools still rule
If voters wanted to be led by proletarians, they would elect proletarians. Cameron isn’t in Downing Street by accident
- Simon Kuper Why CEOs shouldn’t run the world
- Simon Kuper Let’s lose the religious labels
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COMMENT
Apr 13, 2012
End football’s cult of Corporate Man
The sport must rememember it is part of the entertainment industry
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FT MAGAZINE
Apr 7, 2012
Let’s lose the religious labels
The words ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslim’ are overused and have become catch-all terms to explain everything
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FT MAGAZINE
Mar 30, 2012
#Revolutionwhatrevolution?
How the global addiction to computers is helping keep the world quiet and peaceful
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FT MAGAZINE
Mar 23, 2012
Reasons to be cheerful. Seriously
Life has ceased to be quite so poor, nasty, brutish and short – although you wouldn’t know it from watching TV news
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FT MAGAZINE
Mar 23, 2012
Can this man fix Fifa?
Next week, Mark Pieth will propose radical reforms that could make the ‘football family’ respectable once more. But will Fifa listen?
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FT MAGAZINE
Mar 16, 2012
The French media: in bed with power
Nicolas Sarkozy’s links with press barons are almost hilarious, with the entanglements of a Brazilian soap opera
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FT MAGAZINE
Mar 9, 2012
Eternal music from a literary quartet
George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and Anthony Powell are rarely discussed together, and yet are best understood as a cohort
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FT MAGAZINE
Feb 24, 2012
Meet Europe’s new scapegoats
After September 11 the Muslims took a beating. Now it’s the turn of eastern and southern Europeans
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FT MAGAZINE
Feb 17, 2012
Why I’m happy to be a parasite
Much of the journalism profession is motivated by a desire to tell stories without concern for the people in them, but someone’s got to do it
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UK
Feb 12, 2012
Tackling racism tops football’s agenda
Cameron to hold meeting on discrimination
About Simon
Simon Kuper joined the Financial Times in 1994. He ended up writing the daily currencies column and was driven out by tedium in 1998. He returned in 2002 as a sports columnist and has been there ever since, occasionally allowed out of his sports box to write about books, the Netherlands or other subjects. Simon was born in Uganda and grew up in London, the Netherlands, the US, Sweden and Jamaica. He studied at Oxford, Harvard and the Technische Universität of West Berlin. His first book, Football Against the Enemy (1994), set him on a path of writing about sport with an anthropologist’s eye. His column in the FT tries to place sport and sportsmen within a country, a time, a society, while also being about sport itself.
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The posh-ing of English football
The national team is becoming middle-class. It hasn’t been so upmarket since public schoolboys disappeared from the side circa 1900