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RT @AxelMerk: "when money power and political power clash, there is only one way to bet. Politics always comes out on top." @gideonrachman…

Why does nobody ever say, "Thank you government?" Me @FinancialTimes https://t.co/cTriER9cVe

RT @KuperSimon: I wrote this before the final, but I think still worth a read after the 5-0 https://t.co/OSvnFpHKI8

New Book Alert, for the nostalgics: Veni Vidi Vici: When Italian Football Ruled Europe, a labour of love by Dominic Hougham https://t.co/AzAsQCPiDO

I wrote this before the final, but I think still worth a read after the 5-0 https://t.co/OSvnFpHKI8

RT @KuperSimon: When I moved to Paris, it wasn't a football city. Now it's a great football capital: the world's best local talent, a brill…

This hotel, first announced in 2005, has just opened. Obviously no connection of any kind to the policies he'll pursue as president

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When I moved to Paris, it wasn't a football city. Now it's a great football capital: the world's best local talent, a brilliant club, and Europe's richest family just getting another into the top division. What changed? See also London. Me @FinancialTimes https://t.co/CceXwBlzlX

New book alert: The Work We Need: A 21st Century Reimagining, by social activist and former Britain’s Designer of the Year Hilary Cottam, is out today https://t.co/LfnKy7wfBH

RT @offtheball: 🗣️ "They played backward forms of football and tried to catch up." 🗣️ "The Irish… are a bit too far away." Author and jou…

New book alert: today is publication day of Crash of the Buffalo: The Tragedy that Killed a Football Team and Rocked the World, by Jay Mwamba, about Zambian football and the team that died in the air crash in Gabon in 1993 https://t.co/cY6StzAQQ9

Dutch planning to seduce Trump with special gift at next month's NATO summit in The Hague. By Tom in @trouw, via @arjenvanderziel https://t.co/TtsXxDDYjF

RT @adair_mark: ‘… I remember being at a dinner table where the two people who talked least and listened hardest were the two Nobel laureat…

RT @KuperSimon: Me on the economists scheming to make the global rich pay the same taxes as everyone else. (Don't call it a 'wealth tax'!)…

Mostly because of the smartphone, most people are getting dumber. How can individuals resist the trend? I've charted seven intellectual habits of very intelligent thinkers @FinancialTimes https://t.co/cnI8TLWxmX

I haven't seen it, sadly, but if you happen to be in Helsinki, this Jari Litmanen exhibition looks like it's a must-see https://t.co/aVFJLwYFA7

New Book Alert: Don't Forget We're Here Forever, A New Generation's Search for Religion, by Lamorna Ash https://t.co/qK6MLC63MK