Little Letterhole: Remembering the Prague Spring
ON 20 AUGUST 1968, half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers swarmed into Czechoslovakia. Within 24 hours, the whole country wasContinue Reading
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ON 20 AUGUST 1968, half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers swarmed into Czechoslovakia. Within 24 hours, the whole country wasContinue Reading
London is hideously polluted. To end this growing crisis, and improve the city’s quality of life, we need to get the cars out, and the cyclists and pedestrians in.
Tommy Robinson is an unremarkable racist, a bloke-in-the-pub with an outsized platform – we can blame the BBC for mythologising him into a working-class hero.
There are plenty of reasons to visit Turin: fine food and drink, fabulous Alpine vistas and a post-industrial vibe. But there’s also the monument to Grande Torino, a unique piece of football heritage.
DONALD Trump was full of praise for his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö this week. ‘I enjoyed being with you aContinue Reading
Africa should be a continent on the rise, but in the 2018 World Cup not a single team has qualified from the group stage. With an enviable pool of talent, what’s behind this failure?
Solo: A Star Wars Story wasn’t awful, but it was hampered by boring action sequences, a lack of stakes, and overbearing worldbuilding.
Will it be Argentina, France, Germany, or someone wholly unexpected? There are no favourites for this World Cup, but I wouldn’t bank on an upset.
MESUT Özil doesn’t talk about politics, at least according to an interview he gave with the Süddeutsche Zeitung last year.Continue Reading
When Russia was awarded the hosting rights of this year’s FIFA World Cup, more than a few eyebrows were raised. But did FIFA make a good choice, or was it driven by corruption and greed?