Tag archives for Sport
London 2012 has turned into one very big, very cruel, corporate joke
Stuart Roger I hate to put a downer on things as we reach the halfway point of London 2012. Like many people, I have spent the past week pinned to…
How Stirling Albion and FC Barcelona Show the Way Forward for Football
Football is probably closest to our opiate of the masses. There’s plenty of social commentary on how football reflects our society. I’m certainly intrigued by how it grew in significance…
Australia v Serbia: a bloody history
My latest piece on the excellent WDM World Cup blog So, here’s a question. Which member of the OECD “rich countries club” allowed slavery until 1969? Here’ s another. In…
Japan v Cameroon: Colonialism’s laboratory
I wrote this piece for the World Development Movement World Cup site - to which the Bright Green team will be contributing throughout the tournament. In 1959 my grandfather was…