BOOKS | Scott Ewing reviews Soccernomics, which promises to show “why England loses, why Germany and Brazil win, and why the US, Japan, Australia, Turkey – and even Iraq – are destined to become the kings of the world’s most popular sport”
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Australia’s disastrous showing at the Montreal Olympics ushered in a grim – and very expensive – culture of “excellence,” argues Richard Evans
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The election campaign showed how we don’t seem able to have a rational debate about population, writes Peter Mares
The sudden rise to influence of the independent MPs is a challenge to the two-party system and how it’s reported, writes Peter Browne
