Last Sunday I went over to Norwich for a nice Sunday roast, and then to Norwich Castle. The long awaited keep restoration project has been delayed again and so it is still not open after around three years so far. I came across a piece which I hadn't seen before as it has been installed since my last visit, called 'An A-Z of Empire' by the Singh Twins that caught my eye. It's a light box with coloured panels offering an A-Z of Empire with some alternative facts and rhymes about places and events linked with colonialism. It would certainly make a talking point with groups. Here's a description from the Norfolk Museums service: The Singh Twins describe the concept of the jigsaw puzzle – a single image comprised of many separate but interlinked pieces – as symbolically representing the nature of colonial history as a global story; individual but interconnected narratives shaped by different experiences and viewpoints. The Singh Twins describe the purpose of the work a...
Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff via LinkedIn to this post. Dr. Paul Widdop shared the 2025 Sport and Soft Power ranking following 15 months of research. The full report can be read here. The study examines the relationship between sport and soft power, the outcome of which is a global ranking of the world’s most powerful countries in this regard. The ranking, which is based upon the involvement of sixty experts globally, consists of twenty-five countries that have been assessed as being successful in accentuating their attractiveness through sport. Undertaken over a period of twelve months, ten criteria were used as the basis for this ranking exercise. Here are the Top 25 countries. Source, report and methodology: https://publika.skema.edu/sport-soft-power-ranking/