Brexit: passion is a vote-killer and gives people the creeps
The backslapping company of like-minded people is not the place to learn to persuade
John Longworth: the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce has been suspended after he called for Britain to leave the European Union. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
Professional footballers who hound referees after every decision against them do not believe he will change his mind. They want to influence his subsequent decisions. This strategic airing of grievances is a sly feature of elite sport. But it is a feature. It counts as a skill. The grandest clubs work on it as they work on their eye of a needle passing movements.
