From FT MAGAZINE Feb 17, 2012

Why I’m happy to be a parasite

Journalists are parasites ©Luis Grañena

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

From UK Feb 12, 2012

Tackling racism tops football’s agenda

Cameron to hold meeting on discrimination

An illustration depicting a person running away from a book From FT MAGAZINE Feb 10, 2012

My life as a literary character

Writing a book about one’s adopted country is the solution to the integration issue

From COMMENT Feb 8, 2012

Capello’s exit casts England as the loser

Italian’s exit about more than his choice of captain

illustration of human types From FT MAGAZINE Feb 3, 2012

Are you a striver, slacker or fantasist?

In truth, real people are usually a mix of the three archetypes, but most people tend towards one particular type

Chimurenga illustration From FT MAGAZINE Jan 27, 2012

How to change your view of Africa

Chimurenga, a pan-African English-language journal, depicts the continent’s horrors, sometimes from very close...

English Football managers ranked by the 'divisional wage' method From FT MAGAZINE Jan 27, 2012

Football’s best managers

Aided by Stefan Szymanski and reams of club accounts, we reveal some unexpected top performers

Cover of 'The Misfortunates' by Dimitri Verhulst From BOOKS Jan 22, 2012

Under the influence

‘The Misfortunates’ is a subtle and wonderfully told tale about Dimitri Verhulst’s chaotic Flemish upbringing

illustration of Mitt Romney From FT MAGAZINE Jan 20, 2012

A sporting chance for politicians

In our strange age, sport has become the perfect trampoline into politics

Simon Kuper From FT MAGAZINE Jan 13, 2012

Why American teens should go Dutch

Dutch parents treat teen sex much as Dutch society treats drugs: permit it, hug it close, control it

From FT MAGAZINE Jan 6, 2012

A new beginning: photography special

After the disasters of the past year, we asked photographers to look at the people and places putting themselves back together again in 2012

From FT MAGAZINE Jan 6, 2012

Beating cancer: Antoine Doyen

Barcelona footballer Eric Abidal claimed his ‘revenge on life’ two months after undergoing liver surgery

From FT MAGAZINE Dec 9, 2011

A work of art? It’s in the bag

Nobody has understood better than the luxury goods industry how status works today

From FT MAGAZINE Dec 2, 2011

Happiness is a table for one

I can say honestly, without being pretentious, that I’ve stayed in Paris largely because of lunch

From FT MAGAZINE Nov 25, 2011

Arguing as the world burns

Beliefs about climate change have nothing to do with science, writes Simon Kuper

From FT MAGAZINE Nov 18, 2011

Norway: an Eden with wifi

Along with oil, the Scandinavian country has built its economy on another natural resource: its women

From FT MAGAZINE Nov 11, 2011

Let’s play Moneyball

Two men and a book changed baseball for ever. As ‘Moneyball’ becomes a movie, Michael Lewis and Billy Beane meet up where it all began, in Oakland, California

From FT MAGAZINE Nov 11, 2011

The end of identity politics

Sex, drugs and old wars are fading from voters’ heads, leaving the economy as the only issue

From FT MAGAZINE Nov 4, 2011

The hits and misses of history

Assassinations are rare occasions when the fate of nations can seem to hang on a sandwich or briefcase – in other words, on chance

From FT MAGAZINE Oct 28, 2011

Why politicians deserve a break

Today’s leaders are shrunken figures but they are due a rebound. The next elections could be worth winning

About Simon

Simon Kuper 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.

E-mail simon.kuper@ft.com

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