David Cameron seems to be moving towards a European referendum… one day
David Cameron is leaving the land of samba. On his short visit to Brazil, he's been showing off a dance of his own: the European two-step. There is a pattern to Mr Cameron's handling of the domestic...
View ArticlePope Francis in Brazil: don't legalise drugs. Trendy politicians won't like...
A papal visit is usually a good thing for Latin American leaders, a chance to bask in the Pontiff's halo a bit and distract their largely Catholic voters from their usual woes of poverty, debt, and...
View ArticleHas Pope Francis decontaminated the Catholic brand?
Three million. That's more than the entire population of Albania. Or Jamaica. The crowds of young people who greeted Pope Francis on Rio's Copacabana beach yesterday demonstrate his extraordinary...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne, the fat Brazilian and why the Chancellor's economic success...
In case you missed it, in my morning email (sign up here) I mentioned George Osborne's Brazilian. Nizan Guanaes was introduced to the Chancellor at a dinner in Davos a few days ago and was smitten. The...
View ArticleWW1: 89 days to go – Roosevelt discovers a river, votes for women denied
The Daily Telegraph commissioned a series of exclusive dispatches by ex-President Theodore Roosevelt from his South American expedition of 1914, with the Brazilian Marechal Rondon. On May 7 came the...
View ArticleFor the sake of the Union England must not win the World Cup in Brazil
As long as an England team is not playing Scotland, I always support the English in their endeavours. Whether it was during the semi-final penalties against Germany in Italy in 1990, or the famous...
View ArticleWas it really necessary for the BBC to send 272 staff to Brazil for the World...
Fascinating news coverage from Brazil this morning. The country's papers were reviewed on the Today programme, by one of the team (Evan?) who's been sent there. I can't remember a single item, because...
View ArticleIf you're going to the World Cup in Brazil, remember these two words: dengue...
With the World Cup weeks away, we have almost reached "peak Brazil". Newspapers, the web, TV, and our high street shops have gone green and yellow crazy. Some of the coverage has been positive. Most...
View ArticleLast night I tried to find my inner Brazilian…
We are a nation searching for our Britishness. In the wake of the Trojan Horse scandal, every facet of our national character has again been placed under the microscope and tested for its authenticity....
View ArticleBrazil v Germany, Nate Silver v Piers Morgan: do sport pundits ever get it...
The Reverend Thomas Bayes, RA Fisher, Johann Gauss: your boys took one hell of a beating. That’s right, apparently it wasn’t only the Brazilian national team that suffered ignominious defeat on Tuesday...
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