They say if you’re bottom at Christmas you go down
In the history of the Premiership, only one club has survived after being bottom of the league going…
Conor Pope
“Angry? We are.”
So begins ‘AboutUs’ page on Cambridge Defend Education’s website, their rhetorical question perfectly illustrating what little interest they…
Racism in football – a long way gone, a long way to go
“Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle, it’s called heroic, yet if he…
Goodbye, Silvio
The comedian Dylan Moran once described Silvio Berlusconi as a man “so thoroughly corrupt, every time he smiles…
There’s a war coming
Sorry to have come to Hallowe’en clad as the Harbinger of Doom, an oracle of calamity, but there…
Red Dave’s Fat Tax
It’s hard to keep up with all the stupid things the government is doing. They’re like a drunk…
Coalitions, Coldplay and quantitative easing
By Conor Pope / @conorpope A few years ago my brother and I bought my Dad a Coldplay…
Coffeedrinkers, wonks and Ed Miliband
By Conor Pope / @conorpope I did something for the first time the other day. I texted the…
Slightly more than 28 days later
By Conor Pope / @conorpope During the London riots a month ago, I was doing a week of…
The silly season that never was
By Conor Pope / @conorpope A sallow-faced man watches television alone in a lampless room. The curtains are…
