Wednesday is Bastille Day in France and there will be no newsletter that day, because I have personal business to attend to.
Today our pro-Dutch reporter is preparing an octopus stew by chopping up lots of garlic while her buddies blow vuvuzelas. A German octopus correctly forecast every single winner in the World Cup which ended yesterday. with Spain the champion. Meanwhile an economist panel, having rightly predicted Spain would win its first-ever Mundial in a first poll, then revised its figures to produce a muddled message
It reminds me of Harry Truman who said: “what I need is a one-handed economist.” But an 8-handed creature, despite another octopus’s brilliant foresight (or perhaps because of it), is being sacrificed in Amsterdam.
Your editor thinks the best team won. Dutch fouls and far kicks tried to stop the Spanish who advanced with brilliant handovers and clockwork passes.
