it's quite typical of Donald Trump that he said with the same breath that he knows a lot about football and also hadn't known what a red card was www.ft.com/content/cb52...

Again, this has to influence refereeing decisions in any upcoming US matches. Why take a risk and put your career (and maybe your life) in jeopardy by making a decision that Trump dislikes, knowing that FIFA will throw you under the bus to keep him happy?

FIFA makes surprise last-minute change to refereeing team for USA v Belgium:

FIFA have announced the referees for the USA - Belgium game.

this is an absolutely banging statement

Nigel Farage took funding from a convicted criminal & didn't declare it BBC presenter: "our chief political correspondent Henry Zeffeman joins us. Whats the fuss about, Henry?" 'fuss, noun, a show of anger, worry, or excitement that is unnecessary or greater than the situation deserves'

Here I am in happier times with best buds Nathan Gill, now in jail for taking Russian bribes and George Cottrell, who went to prison for fraud then paid for my staff, security and social media and let me stay in his house near Buckingham Palace.

I'm featuring Book 1 in my new spin-off series THE HIGH ISLAND at BLOODY SCOTLAND in Stirling on 18th September. It's a 'Death on the Island' event with authors Alex Grey and Andrew Raymond. Tickets: https://bit.ly/4ezIxLe #BloodyScotland #LinAnderson #TheHighIsland

Outright corruption in plain sight

Really important paper. I hope someone in Andy Burnham's team reads it.

Sprawl car dependent development. Not building (on/with) places. Not thinking about how people (want to) live at all. The antithesis of town and place. BBC News - Where's our doctor, dentist, new school? The sprawling Glasgow suburb lacking basic amenities - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At a national level, we need changes in tax rules, and particularly VAT rules, to make it much cheaper to renovate older buildings in comparison to knocking them down and constructing new ones in their place, rather than the current systen which favours the reverse.

So this is it: Infantino is doing his friend – who he gave a made-up peace prize to so he could brown-nose his way to more influence – a favour. This World Cup was already tainted before now, this takes it to a different level. Infantino's ghoulish, obsequious corruption is pathetic. He has to go.

FIFA just effectively cancelled a US player's Red Card because Donald Trump asked them to. It's time for an end to the corrupt FIFA they are now fixing the games and disgracing the sport.

It was us climate scientists. We can geoengineer record heat waves with our space lasers but a trillion tons of carbon pollution from two centuries of fossil fuel burning can't warm the atmosphere

These truths we hold to be self-evident: Andy Burnham could use a map. One that proves to him that Dundee is not that far distant from our Edinburgh parliament, writes Ruth Wishart ✍️ 🔗 www.thenational.scot/politi...

🧵I’d rather spend my weekends doing something else than post about Nigel Farage’s murky finances, but his behaviour poses such a threat to our democratic norms that I wanted to flag a number of points in the public interest.

NEW: Why did Nigel Farage throw the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election for Boris Johnson? What does it have to do with Harborne’s £5m gift? And why is it tearing apart Britain’s far-right parties? A @thenerve.news investigation by me & @luciaoc.bsky.social (Link below) 1/ #TheHarborneReceipts

Nigel Farage received financial benefits from a convicted criminal in the year before entering Parliament, it has been reported The Reform UK leader has potentially broken MPs’ rules by failing to declare them 👇 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals. It was great to team up with the Insight gang for this one! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I went to America to talk to right wing nutters because they don't ask me why I tried to hide £5 million, how I paid for a £1.4m house with cash and whether I avoided £44,000 tax by buying a £885,000 house in my girlfriend's name.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 What a surprise... spreading fear, division, and hatred yet again.

Trump made 327 stock buys right before he sent the market soaring with tariffs pause. The purchases were made on April 8, 2025, six days after Trump initiated a global trade war and day before he posted on Truth Social: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” TAT: [Corruption]

Just a reminder that patriotism isn't holding a bible and wrapping yourself in the flag while you violate the Constitution and plunder the country. Happy 4th of July, stay cool and safe!!

Here I am last night, serving the people of Clacton and earning my £98k salary by making my 14th trip to the US since becoming an MP, speaking to MAGA morons in Washington DC.

Kylian Mbappé #WorldCup

Announced during a historic heat wave. These guys are buffoons.

Two years ago today the people of Clacton elected me as their MP. Since then I have held no constituency surgeries, hardly visited the place and earned more than twenty times as much as my MP salary in outside grifts.

Intrigued to hear Danny Kruger, of Reform UK, tell Any Questions that universities need to "change their business model". What would he suggest? Selling crypto? Acting as "brand ambassadors" for Direct Bullion? Recording videos saying "Up the Ra"? Or getting a billionaire to chuck us £5 million?

It’s HOT! Don’t forget to unplug your local Data center to stay cool.

Quite preposterous that this is happening dept by dept. But that's the kind of country we are.

Very much this. Blistering stuff on America by @iandunt.bsky.social

NEW: A night on a cruise ship is taxed almost half as much as a night in a hotel – despite their many negative impacts on the environment and contribution to overtourism 🛳️😷 How is this possible... and what can we do about it? 🧵⤵️

"I am Barbra Streisand and I order you to stop looking at my mansion!"

Curse of private equity Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs, Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure. Private equity loaded it with debt after its 2021 acquisition. Paid interest of £730m, £2.2bn since 2021. Assets stripped, real wages cut, market share shrinking. Future?

The fact delivery robots - despite being small motor vehicles - aren't on the roads with all the other motor vehicles is inadvertently very revealing about the dangerous state of our roads

A £4mn property portfolio, jobs paying £22k an hour, £5m bungs, quaffing in exclusive London private member’s clubs, picking & choosing whether he turns up as an MP or for an inteview as and when he can be bothered. But don’t forget, he’s not the elite apparently.

No, hundreds of thousands of ordinary people donating money to Lab through trade unions is not the same as a crypto billionaire living in Thailand bunging £5m to Nigel Farage And @faizashaheen.bsky.social is spot on, Farage represents the interests of the super rich, not the working class

Why are we calling these 'side-hustles' ? He is a full-time MP and these are his second, third, fourth etc jobs. We all can see them for what they are, and what they are not. 'Side hustle' panders to excusers.

The Times (via Politico): "Christopher Harborne, who has given Reform £15 million and Nigel Farage personally £5 million, owns a jet fuel company that sources from refineries using large volumes of Russian crude oil."

Imagine being mad that we live in a country in which a former refugee can rise to become Lord Mayor of their city. That makes me proud to be British, if anything.

The Corner Shop, Beswick, Manchester, 1950s, painting by Harry Kingsley (1914-98).

Nothing says 'speaking for the concerns of the common man' like being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to promote actual gold bars

Burnham's speech is a reminder to Scotland that power devolved is power retained. It's painfully obvious that Burnham does not recognise Scotland as a country, he sees us as just another region of Greater England.

Scotland has generated a record amount of renewable electricity for the first quarter of this year, as the country continues to produce more energy than it consumes, according to new figures

"If Andy Burnham and the Labour leadership truly believed that people should have control over their own lives, they would stop trying to block Scotland's democratic right to choose its own future." Read more here: https://www.snp.org/why-burnhams-devolution-promises-offer-nothing-new-for-scotland/

Not only is Burnham’s “pitch to Scotland” ill informed (whisper it - he doesn’t know that water in Scotland is already nationalised), it only lists urban Scottish place names. There’s no reference to the Highlands, or any of the islands. 🙄 www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

● Farage received £91,200 from a gold bullion company for four hours of work in January 2025. ● That's just £146 less than his MP salary for a whole year. ● And people wonder why he's never in Clacton. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We support @livingstreets.bsky.social #PavementOverload campaign to get delivery robots off our pavements. Pavements are already inaccessible for many #Disabled people, and these robots will make them less safe and more inaccessible. #TakingTheDis

Getting rid of well-respected high ranking members of the military in order to install loyalists is what you do when you are planning to do the wrong thing and want to make sure the military complies with your orders.