Simon Kuper

@KuperSimon

@FT writer. Now increasingly at
@simonkuper.bsky.social. Latest books: World Cup Fever, and my memoir of modern Paris, Impossible City

Paris ft.com/simon-kuper Joined November 2011

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Simon Kuper @KuperSimon Aug 26, 2025

Very chuffed to get my hands on a copy of my book World Cup Fever - a story of the tournament told through my own nine World Cups. It's out in English and Dutch in early October, but you can already preorder it, e.g. here waterstones.com/book/world-cup…

Simon Kuper @KuperSimon 3h

COP 31 starts tomorrow. Laurence Tubiana was there from the start in the 1990s, masterminded Paris agreement of 2015, and her whole career is the story of the world's attempts to cut emissions. She talked to me about everything she has learned and seen as.ft.com/r/367ec8b3-487…

www.ft.com Laurence Tubiana: the climate struggle is entering its ‘post-Trump era’ France’s star negotiator on the Paris accord, éco-anxiété and her hopes for COP Antalya

Simon Kuper @KuperSimon 9h

My @FT interview with a onetime Trotskyist born in French Algeria who has spent 30 years fighting climate change and still sees reasons to be hopeful

FT Weekend @ftweekend 2d

Laurence Tubiana: the climate struggle is entering its ‘post-Trump era’ ft.trib.al/OSaWJVz
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Simon Kuper @KuperSimon 2d

Very well-informed French sports newspaper @lequipe says Wenger is seriously considering standing for FIFA president against Infantino in March, isn't sure, expected to decide next week

L'Équipe Verified account @lequipe 2d

On saura en milieu de semaine prochaine si Arsène Wenger (77 ans), courtisé de toutes parts, se présente pour être le nouveau président de la FIFA, dont l'élection est prévue le 18 mars. La tentation est réelle.
l.lequipe.fr/ZVC
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Simon Kuper @KuperSimon 5d

How do you say this in populist language? 'A tiny out-of-touch urban elite has rejected the real people'?