Simon Kuper

@FT writer. Now increasingly at
@simonkuper.bsky.social. Latest books: World Cup Fever, and my memoir of modern Paris, Impossible City

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

Very chuffed to get my hands on a copy of my book World Cup Fever - a story of the tournament told through my own nine World Cups. It's out in English and Dutch in early October, but you can already preorder it, e.g. here https://t.co/hWnRozMV20

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

What if Manchester United's problem isn't whichever poor sod is the manager of the moment, but rather something to do with the structure of the org?

[Dave Pearson @dpearso17]

@KuperSimon Who would you appoint Simon?

[Litstable @Litstable]

@KuperSimon Hi Simon, may I put in a word for @AnnieChave ‘s excellent ‘Cricket Changed My Life’- Eleven Personal Journeys. 🙏🏻

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

8/ I’d already tweeted about Game Theory: How Luck and Analytics Shape Football, by ace German writer Christoph Biermann, and Ollie Randall’s two new cricket books, Writers in Whites and Lord’s and Maharajas: Cricket, Empire, and India’s First Test Tour. Good luck to all authors!

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

1/ Here's a thread about some exciting new or newish sports books. First Duncan Hamilton's The Man Who Walked Out of the Sun: A Lifetime of Summers with Garry Sobers, who died this year. Hamilton is 3x winner of William Hill sports book award https://t.co/c7I0IwPSBl

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

7/ Nick Fishwick spent a career in the Foreign Office and then wrote Moving the Goalposts: The Transformation of English Football. He studied the records of clubs big and small to show how a community game was turned into a globalised business. Kudos! https://t.co/pnOIrrisNI

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

What could possibly go wrong

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United finalising deal to appoint Mauricio Pochettino if ultimate decision made to replace Michael Carrick. 54yo lined up & terms being done with camp. #MUFC yet to contact US but straight-forward should plan proceed @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/YTEGRxbVpF

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

Congrats, Edward Chisholm https://t.co/EG0TJlhQAW

[International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory]

And the discussions continue!

From anti-fascist economics and US oligarchy to taxing the rich, media power and investigative journalism, activists, journalists, economists and politicians come together for open debates at #ParisAgainstOligarchy Summit

🔗 https://t.co/mts1ECPapJ

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

COP 31 starts tomorrow. Laurence Tubiana was there from the start in the 1990s, masterminded Paris agreement of 2015, and her whole career is the story of the world's attempts to cut emissions. She talked to me about everything she has learned and seen https://t.co/BPyxT4nzuH

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

COP 31 starts tomorrow. Laurence Tubiana was there from the start in the 1990s, masterminded Paris agreement of 2015, and her whole career is the story of the world's attempts to cut emissions. She talked to me about everything she has learned and seen https://t.co/BPyxT4nzuH

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

My @FT interview with a onetime Trotskyist born in French Algeria who has spent 30 years fighting climate change and still sees reasons to be hopeful

[FT Weekend @ftweekend]

Laurence Tubiana: the climate struggle is entering its ‘post-Trump era’ https://t.co/SKexXtQfFL

[💧Vince Mahon @vjmahon]

Laurence Tubiana thinks we’re now entering the “post-Trump” era. The oil shock caused by his war in Iran is encouraging many countries to shift to renewables @KuperSimon #ClimateAction #COP31 #Renewables

https://t.co/ry9rif9ZnH

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

El-Sayed may not be an exceptional electoral performer, but he is unusually intelligent for a senator

[huthyfaabdulzahra @huthyfazahra]

I need it badly and ASAP it is family issue no charity I do commissioned posters and t shirt designs PLEASE DM 009647735387621

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

Very well-informed French sports newspaper @lequipe says Wenger is seriously considering standing for FIFA president against Infantino in March, isn't sure, expected to decide next week

[L'Équipe @lequipe]

On saura en milieu de semaine prochaine si Arsène Wenger (77 ans), courtisé de toutes parts, se présente pour être le nouveau président de la FIFA, dont l'élection est prévue le 18 mars. La tentation est réelle.
https://t.co/RJ60Ufmk11