A question of sport? It is a well known fact that when a nation's soccer team goes on a winning run in a major tournament, crime figures fall and productivity in industry goes up. There is not a politician in the world who would not want to bottle such a thing if it were possible

DURING THE COLD WAR, THE ideologies of capitalism and communism clashed on many different fronts. Parades of soldiers, tanks and missiles through the broad streets of Moscow were a formidable [...]