Monthly Archives: June 2013
Why I am not thankful to Edward Snowden
Sometimes, very rarely I grant you, it is not a Sun headline but a front-page in the Guardian-my breakfast newspaper of choice-that makes me almost choke on my corn flakes. The Guardian is unsurprisingly on a roll having first broken the story that has been subsequently covered widely by the media internationally , and stirred a political debate on both sides of the Atlantic. But while this story has , as they put in hack parlance ‘legs’, the direction of it seems somewhat one-sided thus far. Today’s Guardian devotes …
Some home truths behind the Neymar/Barca show
So the Neymar show has come to the Nou Camp and with it a lot of money going into a few pockets and in a way that is about as transparent as the sea off the Costa Brava after a stormy night. Beyond the razzmatazz, only time will tell whether the money spent on this boy from Brazil is worth it. For now, let me say that I have my doubts. I watched him play in last summer’s Olympics and more recently against England at the reopening of the …
