My favourite gameEnglandEngland’s captain went into the 1970 World Cup under a cloud but he was imperious against the eventual winners Our school’s football team coach was sure he knew why Bobby Moore was targeted in the infamous, and still unsolved, Bogotá bracelet incident that dominated England’s preparations for the 1970 World Cup. “They wanted the captain – it was the best chance of disrupting the team,” he told us. “Others were in that shop but Moore was the one fingered. Read More...
Retail industry This article is more than 2 months old‘Sexual’ Temu online shopping adverts banned by UK authorityThis article is more than 2 months oldOne of Chinese e-commerce app’s ads appeared on British news site ‘portraying child in sexual way’
Five adverts for the Chinese shopping app Temu have been banned in the UK for their sexualised nature, with one found to have been irresponsible in how it depicted a young girl to sell bikinis. Read More...
The 100 best novelsCharles DickensDavid Copperfield marked the point at which Dickens became the great entertainer and also laid the foundations for his later, darker masterpiecesRobert McCrum introduces the series
David Copperfield was the first book Sigmund Freud gave his fiancee, Martha Bernays, on their engagement in 1882. It was the gift of a lifelong Anglophile to his beloved, a book encrypted with peculiar meaning to a man with a special fascination for the complicated relation of autobiography to storytelling. Read More...