I cannot believe it's out, after months of work, but here's our very first Heroes and Humans of Football podcast! Me with @MehreenKhn. It's about Kylian Mbappé: made in Paris, in an extraordinary family, about to be exported to Madrid. Please listen!

Gefeliciteerd met je nieuwe boek, Dido Michielsen! Verborgen vader - een zoektocht naar haar vader die in Japans krijgsgevangenschap zat, tegen de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid vocht, en er niet voor haar was.

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I have a brilliant time in "France's Favourite Village", which is trying to achieve the goal of all French villages: survival

RT @ShibleyTelhami: Agreed on this, but it's hard to miss that Blumenthal failed to attack Trump when he warmly welcomed Netanyahu who also….

RT @michaeldweiss: This is what they call a goodwill gesture.

RT @DKThomp: Good news is in short supply, but I think this is the right answer to the Q: What's the best news in America right now?. This….

I review Anthony Quinn's very readable, astute and funny thoughts on Kevin Keegan - not really a biography, but better

RT @JohnSimpsonNews: According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, more journalists have been killed….

RT @humansofny: “When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing….

RT @vsrsus: Rest in peace to Suleiman Obeid. A legendary Palestinian footballer who was killed by Israeli occupational forces while waiting….

Why Unicef almost always chooses the Netherlands as the country with the happiest children. Me on what makes a good childhood, based partly on having grown up in the Netherlands @FT

RT @ftweekend: Simon Kuper on what makes a good childhood – and what other countries can learn from the Netherlands: .

New Book Alert: happy publication day to Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp, by Alan McDougall, sports historian. And kudos to my late mum's old publisher, Cambridge University Press

RT @PjotrSauer: A beautiful obituary by Simon Kuper about my father, who somehow managed to live seven lives in one.

Theworst thing that Trump has done is under-publicised: USAID cuts will kill 14 million people by 2030, predicts @TheLancet . It thinks USAID saved an unimaginable 92 mn lives in 20 years through 2021. Very worth your time reading this by @davidpilling @FT

RT @polinaivanovva: On February 24, 1990 he drove to Russia in a car packed with basic necessities. @KuperSimon on the incredible life of….

My obituary of @Derksauer, the Dutchman who fell for Russia and became a Moscow media magnate, one of the handful of most impressive people I've met in my life

Ik lees momenteel Moscow Times, de biografie van Derk Sauer en Ellen Verbeek door Dido Michielsen, echt een aanrader:

RT @KuperSimon: How do we choose our heroes, from about age seven till our early 20s? And how do they shape us? Me @FinancialTimes on why I….

RT @FT: Watching videos of Hannah Arendt and Nelson Mandela is a reminder of how one’s early heroes can continue to inspire, says Simon Kup….

Here is a more personal note that I wrote for Derk this week. I hope the Sauer family won't mind me posting it - it's my homage to @derksauer, a great man