Il Milan… a Cardinal(e) sin?

by roger mitchell | Oct 27, 2024

It’s not every day you get to meet the major protagonists in anything. I write this on a train to Turin, to lunch with Andrea Agnelli, a member of the family that has utterly defined the country in which I have chosen to live almost all of my adult life. He had read...

Eyes Wide Shut?

by roger mitchell | Oct 20, 2024

Charlie Simpson of Scottish Rugby put this previous Sunday Column into AI software to show how the technology can now automatically create an original two-way avatar conversation on any piece. It produced this.   As someone who has worked in disruptive tech for...

Don’t be Evil!

by roger mitchell | Oct 13, 2024

Zaz (David Zaslav), boss of Warner Bros Discovery, can’t catch a break. We have often covered in these Columns how he is now really struggling. For a sport strategy post NBA, with tense carriage deals negotiations, VENU uncertainty, the debt, and basically trying to...

There Is No Alternative (TINA).

by roger mitchell | Oct 6, 2024

The best and most popular historical fiction in the last 50 years, if you exclude wizards and dragons, has always been around mafia. “Godfather”, “Casino”, “Goodfellas”, “Peaky Blinders” and of course “The...

A state of mind.

by roger mitchell | Sep 29, 2024

When Raffaella and I arrived in Como in 2006, our neighbour was a Venetian. If complimented on his amazing city, he always replied: Venice is not a place, it is a state of mind. It cannot be described, only experienced. And in the reflective days following this year’s...