@simonkuper.bsky.social
Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
@simonkuper.bsky.socialMost football fans detest Gianni Infantino. But the Swiss son of poor Italian immigrants may be exactly the FIFA president that most national football federations want. Me
@financialtimes.com on how power in the global game works, and why he's likely to survive. Free link as.ft.com/r/946066a2-f...
@ftweekend.comReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialAs the Swedish Academy chooses the winner of the book world’s most prestigious award, Simon Kuper looks back at an august ideal often marred by politics and bias: ft.trib.al/OYVMm0l
@simonkuper.bsky.socialAmazing events schedule for autumn at the American Library in Paris (and no, they don't pay me), including a debate on the US midterms on Oct 15, me interviewing Julian Jackson about De Gaulle Oct 20, Virginia Evans, Skye Perryman, Evan Gershkovich +++ americanlibraryinparis.org/for-adults/c...
@simonkuper.bsky.socialReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialI go deep inside the Nobel prize for literature. How the award was invented, what it does, and why despite everything we're lucky to have it. Free link here: as.ft.com/r/3279d63f-7... @financialtimes.com
@ftedit.ft.comReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialSimon Kuper | Inside the Nobel Prize for literature ft.trib.al/by1HuGM #FTEdit
@simonkuper.bsky.socialI go deep inside the Nobel prize for literature. How the award was invented, what it does, and why despite everything we're lucky to have it. Free link here: as.ft.com/r/3279d63f-7... @financialtimes.com
@jonawils.bsky.socialReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialToday on the IWWIW book club, Simon Kuper joins us to discuss Football Against the Enemy.
#iwwiw #booclub #footballagainsttheenemy
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@simonkuper.bsky.socialVery psyched to be hosting this event with Julian Jackson on Charles de Gaulle, in Paris on Oct 20. Link to tickets here. Prof Jackson wrote the prizewinning biography of De Gaulle on which the brilliant new biopic is based americanlibraryinparis.org/event/jackso...
@simonkuper.bsky.socialReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialI interviewed Vanessa Paradis, the singer/actress/model who has been part of the soundtrack of French people's lives for 40 years now, since she was 14. Free link @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/ef67...
@simonkuper.bsky.socialManchester City cheated and should be punished. But the rules they broke are ridiculous and should be scrapped. Let owners spend their own money! Football shouldn't turn away donors. Just turn away bad actors and sportswashers. Me @financialtimes.com - free to read as.ft.com/r/754ae74e-e...
@simonkuper.bsky.socialI interviewed Vanessa Paradis, the singer/actress/model who has been part of the soundtrack of French people's lives for 40 years now, since she was 14. Free link @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/ef67...
@simonkuper.bsky.socialI'd argue winning is only a minor aspect of World Cups, too
@stelliform.pressReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialPublication day is here! Wendy Waring’s THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT is now available everywhere books are sold. Good Reading calls it “seductively spellbinding” and declares, “Debuts aren’t supposed to be this good.” We couldn’t agree more.
@tonytassell.bsky.socialReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialAn interview with Paul Theroux at 85 by @simonkuper.bsky.social. as.ft.com/r/a701120c-3...
@wendywaring.bsky.socialReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialJust a reminder: My novel THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT launches this week at The City & The City bookstore in Hamilton on 10 September, 7-9 pm.
@jorisluyendijk.bsky.socialReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialDit kwam net even binnen. 300 jassen! Dat is genoeg voor een heel weeshuis. Letterlijk. En daar zijn ze ook voor bedoeld. Zo'n zorg minder nu in dat weeshuis in Odesa. Als de winter komt, hebben de kinderen een warme jas.
Mijn dag kan niet meer stuk.
Doneren kan hier: whydonate.com/fundraising/...
@catherinedevries.bsky.socialReposted by @simonkuper.bsky.socialWe’re hiring!
Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in:
Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB
International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf
Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA
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@simonkuper.bsky.socialMy Q&A with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center about football, politics, and the Holocaust and German occupation in the Netherlands. Also some discussion of learnings from the recent World Cup vimeo.com/1221298279?s...
@simonkuper.bsky.socialMaybe 'the media' is a blanket term that covers thousands of outlets and millions of journalists of very different kinds, so isn't very useful as a descriptor
@simonkuper.bsky.socialAfter 24 years as an FT columnist, this is my last column. It's not as drastic as that - I'm going to become an FT feature writer (after much-needed long holiday). Me @financialtimes.com on my method for writing column, how I learned to be shouted at, 2016 etc. Free link as.ft.com/r/aebbeadf-5...
