Bread, circuses and football fever: do I care about the World Cup?

Football — the continuation of war by other means. The trouble with football (collapsing a whole long list into a handful of bugbears) is that its mindset bears an uncanny resemblance to the belief in “my country/party right or wrong”. It appears designed to programme the collective brain out of thinking and nuance, making those […]

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