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The most powerful man in football, Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, faced a furious backlash last week after it emerged that he was seeking to create a £15bn commercial subsidiary that would control the rights to the World Cup. Under...
As a small boy growing up in Amritsar, India, in the 1960s, Avtar Singh used to hear whispers. Your mum isn’t really your mum, they would say. Your mum lives abroad. Avtar didn’t really pay attention. “I thought, the neighbours are just making up...
When Jason Arday became the youngest black professor in Cambridge’s history in 2023, he was “lionised by the academic world” and became a “poster boy for the university’s diversity drive”, said Gordon Rayner in The Daily Telegraph. Then only...
There were 350,000 people in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 – the day the US dropped the first atomic bomb over the city. One of those people, says Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian, was Koko Kondo – then an eight-month-old baby. Miraculously, she and...
