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The 2034 World Cup: how Saudi Arabia’s influence is reshaping global football
Football is a behemoth. The world’s biggest, most celebrated, and most culturally impactful sport saw a staggering 1.5 billion people tune in to the final of Qatar ‘22. The unprecedented global reach of the sport however, is, unfortunately, increasingly a vessel exploited by those seeking to gain something on both a personal and political level,… Read More…
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The Premier League’s biggest story this season is a lie
“If you look at the expected goals, it was 0.7 for them and 0.6 for us. It was a very tight game, they created very little, had very little number of shots on target, one more than us, that’s all,” Arsene Wenger said, following his side’s 3-1 defeat to eventual title winners Manchester City in… Read More…
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Butter by Asako Yuzuki: a rich and unsettling literary feast
Few novels interrogate the intersection of food, power, and gender with the same unflinching precision as Asako Yuzuki’s Butter. Inspired by the real-life case of convicted Japanese serial killer Kanae Kijima, Yuzuki’s novel is a masterful blend of crime fiction and social commentary, examining the ways in which a woman’s relationship with food can become… Read More…
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