‘I wouldn’t pay it either’

Simon Skinner: World Cup Wallcharts, 25 June 2026

The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup 
by Jonathan Wilson.
Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May, 978 0 349 14573 0
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... to back a UN resolution declaring Argentina the aggressor. There was talk of a boycott, but Margaret Thatcher, knowing little of football or the home associations’ tournament records, calculated that their performances would improve troop morale; in the event Scotland went out in the first group phase and England and Northern Ireland in the ...

Prejudice Rules

LRB Contributors: After Roe v. Wade, 21 July 2022

... in fact support some legal access to the termination of unwanted pregnancies. On the other side, Jacob Rees-Mogg, at time of writing still minister for Brexit opportunities, blithely concedes that these benefits may take fifty years to eventuate. Yet, for all the ideological elitism at the top, both of these movements have also relied on the prejudices and ...