The other day, January 2, was the fiftieth anniversary of the Ibrox disaster when sixty-six people, half of them teenagers, were killed on a stairway as they hurried to leave the ground. It was the only “Old Firm” match I have ever attended and, going straight from Ibrox to Queen Street station to catch a train to Aberdeen, I knew nothing of the disaster till I got to Aberdeen and a taxi driver there said, “terrible what happened at Ibrox, wasn’t it ?” I hope I refrained from saying it wasn’t much of a match, though I have often claimed I did so.
Upstart: why it took the West so long to pay attention to China’s rise
Beijing has accumulated power by avoiding emulating the methods of its main competitor, argues Oriana Skylar-Mastro in her new book.
