... Rossa were aware of Alfred Nobel’s dynamite compound, invented in 1867. ‘Dynamite,’ as Sarah Cole wrote in her book At the Violet Hour (2012),held highly idealised associations. It offered new vistas of power, not solely for its potential to wreak destruction but also for its ability to terrify a wide public. The connotations of dynamite for radical ...

The Israel Lobby

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, 23 March 2006

... they believe, would be contrary to God’s will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters. The US form of government offers ...

‘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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... 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 ...