Good morning. If you are a football fan with a conscience, get ready for a month of constant cognitive dissonance: the Qatar World Cup is here.
It started yesterday with an opening ceremony featuring Morgan Freeman and Jungkook from K-pop superstars BTS, and a 2-0 defeat for Qatar against Ecuador. Meanwhile this weekend, Fifa president Gianni Infantino, paid about £2.6m this year, said, among other preposterous things, that he feels “like a migrant worker”. And Pete Pattisson reported for the Guardian that some actual migrant workers employed as security guards during the tournament appear to be being paid as little as 35 pence an hour.
