Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.