“... office in an age of strongmen, between Margaret Thatcher’s first election victory in 1979 and Robert Mugabe’s in 1980. Thirty-six years later Dos Santos is still in power. Under his supervision, Angola is not just a development star, but a model of elite self-enrichment and wealth disparity. There are now said to be seven thousand millionaires while ...”

“... four countries, and paid their local federations $300,000 for the privilege. The CEO of Adidas, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, loaned the DFB €6.7 million, which was used to help secure the four Asian votes; this only came to light when he was later repaid via a Fifa account.As ever, Vladimir Putin was watching. In 2010, in advance of the bids for the 2018 and ...”