Darren Burling
@chesterdaz.bsky.social
Chester FC, real ale, cyclist, environmental campaigner.... Stop Israeli genocide.. 🇵🇸
I suspect they'll just keep adding 16 teams to every tournament until Italy eventually qualifies again after missing out on the last 3 😂 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Fifa rapidly accelerates plan to expand World Cup to 64 teams from 2030 tournament
Fifa has accelerated plans to expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams and opened a tender to research companies to assess the economic benefits quickly
theguardian.com
When you think Barclays couldn't get any more despicable. Dump them.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last wk.Barclays Bank is Europe's biggest funder of fossil fuels. Pushing climate change, El nino, crop failures, hunger as profit opportunity, urging investors to speculate on price of food, fertilizer, commodities. Prices and food bills will rise. Profiting from destruction that banks financed.
No one owns football. It is the common property of humanity. FIFA plans to sell off its tournaments to private equity. It is not FIFA's to sell. Our statement: rebootfifa.com/news/reboot-...
FIFA's plan to sell the game off to private equity is the result of serial misgovernance. Dissent. Sign here. rebootfifa.com/sign/
Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
rebootfifa.com
It’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.
BREAKING 🚨: We just sent a vital message to Burnham in his first days as PM: stop the flow of North Sea oil profits to companies linked to occupation.
A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea
Belgian team celebrating their win in the locker room.
@curiousgnome.bsky.social snaffle the @camrawestcheshire.bsky.social branch pub of the year award for the second time! Well deserved recognition for the whole gang 🙌😁
Wahay @curiousgnome.bsky.social pub of the year award night! 🏆👍 And finally matched @redjumpermartin.bsky.social in making it to level 100 on Untapped 🍻
No more rearranging the deckchairs. Regulation has failed. It's time for a publicly owned Thames Water - led by experts and local communities, in the interest of the public. Well said @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social.bsky.social.
Illegal waste dump left rotting for months in Makerfield is “symbol of north-south divide” It is - it’s also a symbol of how waste crime has become a huge industry, due to deregulation & defunding of the Environment Agency. Fixing illegal dumps = reversing that www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Illegal dump becomes ‘symbol of north-south divide’ at heart of Makerfield byelection
Failure to clear up rotting, rat-infested site is a key issue for local people as they weigh up politicians’ promises
theguardian.com
NEWS: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists and handed special custodial measures despite never being charged with, or convicted of, a terrorism offence. Samuel, Charlotte, Leona, & Fatema have all already been inside for almost 2 years. More at defendourjuries.net/savinglives/
Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'. Spot on. They inflate investment by capitalising part of interest, repair/maintenance cost. Govt says Thames Water is worth £21bn. KKR wouldn't pay £4bn. Govt must enforce environmental laws, bankrupt them. Nationalise.
Feargal Sharkey rubbishes key argument for not nationalising water industry
Campaigners have stepped-up pressure on the government to bring the crisis hit water industry back into public ownership
mirror.co.uk
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
Yet the perpetrators of genocide and grave war crimes go free, and these sentences are meant to silence all those trying to hold them to account. Gross injustice. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK
Four found guilty get tougher conditions as judge says actions were ‘designed to intimidate the UK government and a section of the public’
theguardian.com
I see BiBiC #R4Today are singling out @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's criticism of the judgement in the Filton case. No mention of the 1000 lawyers/barristers who criticised the judge? These folks weren't found guilty of terrorism but were sentenced as such. Dangerous move www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestine Action activists jailed over Bristol Elbit factory raid
The case is believed to be the first time that convictions for criminal damage have been classified as terrorism.
bbc.co.uk
🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them. Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future
BREAKING: Judge Johnson has confirmed the Filton Four will be sentenced based on a 'terrorist connection'. This heart breaking news comes despite the protestors never being charged or convicted of terror offences or violent intent. For more info: defendourjuries.net/savinglives/
Our croplands produce enough calories to feed 14.5 billion people! BUT 40% of the calories go to livestock — who produce just 5% of our calories, while making 15% of all planet-heating pollution. drawdown.org/insights/we-... Precision fermentation lets us change the math, and feed more people.
Yellow Dot Studios@yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 2mo agoPrecision fermentation could radically transform our food system — without radically transforming what foods we eat. That's why we're teaming up with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to make a short film about it, and we need your help to make it happen. ⬇️🐄❌ www.gofundme.com/f/no-cows-ne...
Another year, another accolade and another rambling speech from Dale of @thatbeerplace.co.uk 😂 Congrats for winning Camra Cheshire and Merseyside cider pub of the year again! Lisa, Amelia and the team deserve the plaudits tho👏 @camrawestcheshire.bsky.social
When he was an MEP, Farage excused his absences on basis that it was an illegitimate government and that sovereignty should reside in Westminster. He's now an MP in Westminster And he's been absent for 77 Parliament votes in a row. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...
Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
thelondoneconomic.com
Not happy with developers building crap, expensive houses Labour now wants them to build crap, expensive towns
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2mo agoReeves examines using private sector funds to build new towns. It is PFI renamed as public-private partnerships (PPP). The state guarantees corporate profits for decades. £1 private investment results in £6 govt repayment. Cheaper for govt to borrow. It can issue public bonds.
So the French heat bomb defeats Dazza and Bexy's attempt on St Malo to Nice... Yesterday's attempts to keep cool by hogging tree shade, hugging cave walls and lying down with your legs up a wall isn't suited to a relaxed cycling holiday.. Plan B a few mornings ride due south to the med!
2 weeks on from St Malo and we've hit the Ardeche. Finally enjoying balmy summer evenings.. Fab descents from the mountains today...
2 Belgian beers at lunchtime whilst sheltering from a shower. Time to resume the ride to Figeac. What could possibly go wrong 🤪🍻🚲
