What is this ‘compulsive inclusion of Jordan Henderson’ thing? I ask this as a Liverpool fan. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Transfer roundup: Chelsea sell Trevoh Chalobah and sign Jordan Henderson
The Chelsea academy product Trevoh Chalobah will now play under Cesc Fàbregas after Como spent £27.5m on him, while Henderson adds experience to Xabi Alonso’s squad
theguardian.com
This implies that UEFA were somehow stupid/corrupt enough to have ‘confidence’ in a flagrant crook prior to now. Pretty damning, really. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Gianni Infantino ‘has lost Uefa’s confidence’ after Fifa chief scraps World Cup sell-off plan
Gianni Infantino ‘has lost the confidence’ of Uefa following his aborted project to sell off the World Cup to private investors, European football’s governing body has said
theguardian.com
Make it so.
Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5d agoReform scores hat trick of losses in Manchester despite the hype, the polling and the noise around Farage. Over to you now, Clacton. Deal the killer blow and vote Count Binface in August. The country could do with the laugh. And without that grifting loser. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Total madness to jolt me into life on this Saturday morning… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
bbc.co.uk
The sane response: No shit. The response of the right: Two-tier policing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Police take no further action over Polanski sharing Farage guillotine image
Scotland Yard says threshold not met for criminal action against Green leader, who has refused to apologise to his Reform rival
theguardian.com
Sucking up to Trump doesn’t make him any less likely to screw you over. This had better be just window-dressing.
Typically shifty and disingenuous from Farage and the Telegraph. What he means is: “If voters vote for me, that will nullify my criminality.” It’s the parochial off-brand version of Trump’s 2024 run.
Kicking today’s SUN COMES UP exclusive off the front pages… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence
theguardian.com
Yeah. It shouldn’t really be a thing, but Trump handing the WC to Milei’s Argentina has a bad smell to it. Trump, on the other hand, having to hand it to Sanchez’s Spain, is almost fragrant.
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 2w agoDave Zirin wishes a soccer game would not buttress a fascist agenda or give wings to a social democratic one, but this is the world we live in, and so today, we should all cheer on Pedro Sánchez's Spain. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Even Jonathan Liew succumbs to the foolishness… www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Tuchel would rather put down the English game than admit to his own cowardice | Jonathan Liew
England’s coach said ball possession is not in the team’s DNA – it’s an opinion that should disqualify him from the job
theguardian.com
I’m kind of 😶🤢🤮 by this. Both teams have fallen short of what they’d hoped, & have something to prove. I’m sympathetic over the Argentina loss, but if England treat a game vs. what many were calling the best team in the world a week ago, as an obligatory friendly… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup 2026: Third-place play-off - an unwanted tie or a match with a 'golden layer'?
Why does the Fifa World Cup Bronze Final still exist?
bbc.co.uk
Starmer for AG. It’s what he should’ve done in the first place. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What will Keir Starmer do next?
Outgoing PM has joked about cookery classes and cutting hedges, but does the international stage beckon?
theguardian.com
Regardless of nationality, you have to be politically and morally retarded to feel easy about the Putin/Musk/Yaxley-Lennon/Tate coagulation. We may as well include Trump and Farage, here. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father
Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures
theguardian.com
Yep. We’re doing it. The BBC decency-washing Anne Widdecombe. Why don’t they just defund themselves as a mark of respect? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m on tenterhooks to see the outcome of the ‘own research’ warriors synthesising a George Monbiot article with the latest huffy outrage of Richard Tice being asked to explain what he professes to think.
I was just daring to think that the football might drown out the politics. A buoyant US team, driving domestic interest & the good will of the neutral. Yet Trump somehow contrives resentment towards his own country’s team. Like nobody’s ever seen before… www.theguardian.com/football/liv...
Since the Financial Crisis, we’ve seen ever more fantastical & brutal measures to distract from the obvious lessons of that time. The forces of Capital have been Ride-Or-Die to keep the old ideas alive. The unfailing support of this at the ballot box by those hit hardest has been really something.
Ben Stiller as Simple Jack with Mallet
ALT: Ben Stiller as Simple Jack with Mallet
static.klipy.com
BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · last mo.This isn't really true, the quality of life in most G7 countries has been decreasing for the average person since 2008 under the guise of 'Austerity' Which is now being increased by Welfare for Warfare for a War that isn't happening and never will It's all $'s for billionaires
Strange. My money was on Infantino to face that one down. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
White House lobbied Fifa to lift Folarin Balogun suspension for World Cup game v Belgium
The US striker was shown red in the team’s last-32 match, but the card and its suspension were thought to not be eligible for appeal.
theguardian.com
Would it be true to say that Kemi Badenoch doesn’t know the difference between eyelashes and eyebrows. And that Donald Trump doesn’t know a fucking thing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Thingy with the eyelashes who was once ‘mayor of a town’ hits Westminster | John Crace
Trump gets to grips with ‘extremely liberal’ new kid who’s already roasting Kemi Badenoch on X
theguardian.com
Is it just me, or does quantum mechanics look a lot like what’s found in the photocopier after the office Christmas party…?
