Egypt fans being pulled aside, patted down, and double-checked before the Argentina vs. Egypt match, while Argentina supporters were allowed to walk through security without the same level of screening. And this is exactly why people keep accusing FIFA of double standards.

My dude. Vietnam just rang to say they are still run by Communists….

The Norwegian Football Association donated all proceeds and ticket revenues (totaling over $350,000) from their World Cup qualifying match against Israel to Doctors Without Borders for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Guess which team I’m rooting for . . .

People love to just omit Palestine from the story of why public opinion has shifted regarding Israel

Photo of parasite.

This day in history. 2015. Boy band singer James McElvar nearly died from heat stroke on a flight from London to Glasgow. He had been wearing twelve layers of clothing to avoid paying a baggage fee. Alba gu bràth.

1/ Ukraine's drone blockade of Crimea is tightening, with yet more ships hit in the Sea of Azov. Russia is reported to have halted shipping in the area in response. This is likely to have drastic effects not just on Crimea but on many Russian exports. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/spec...

There's certain people who have to learn the difference between an organisation "disappearing" vs not posting on X anymore. I just watched a video of two very self-serious people who clearly spend too much time on X talking about how Bellingcat has just vanished.

The first sentence of every history undergraduate essay.

#RomanSiteSaturday! The architectural perfection of Timgad, Algeria, is consistently striking in aerial views. The Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi was founded in 100 AD. Its plan, laid out with great precision, is Roman urban planning at its best. 📷 Georg Steinmetz 🏺 #archaeology

"Scrap" not "water down", and boot Mahmood out of position and onto the backbenchers, if not remove the whip, while he is at it. You cannot water down Labour's current hostile and xenophobic anti-immigration/anti-asylum policies. They are too far towards the extreme right for tweaks to mean anything

incels out here whining about not being able to find a girl but do they even try to match the vibe of the victoria crowned pigeon. no. of course they don't

The Establishment is now anyone who reads The Guardian, albeit thinking it isn’t what it was, and is aghast at cuts to the BBC while objecting to the rightward drift of its editorial stance.

Artificial Intelligence may I introduce you to deliberate stupidity?

Nice detail from the FT profile of Haaland.

Recently, I wrote about my visit to Shuk, a local charity fair in Kyiv. Today I saw their update: that day, they raised UAH 856,512 (more than $19,200) for the 33rd Separate Mechanised Brigade. Well done, Shuk.

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

Ahem. Benjamin Disraeli. Or was he the wrong kind of Jew?

if the british finally elect count binface i'll never say another bad word about the UK ever again

He is Count Binface, of the County Binface. Binface is a place

so "establishment" is literally just code for "being leftwing" then

this is genuinely wildly upsetting on so many levels

“Why do WE have to get rid of our rapists but the Republicans don’t?” Setting aside all moral implications, it’s because around 70% (if not more) of Democratic volunteers are women and if they get totally disgusted with the party nobody is winning any elections anymore.

Two headlines from today's papers

Mamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could.

“The U.S. is starving Cuba like Israel is starving Gaza. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel and humanitarian aid, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. Food is rotting. Water pumps stopped working.” M. Safa

His claim to be fighting for the people of Clacton would have been somewhat more convincing if he hadn't been forced to go back more than two years before finding a clip of himself there

He covers how his species reproduces here and it’s hilarious youtu.be/3nHNaJzoCr4?...

The mental image of someone checking their Ring doorbell and then Count Binface appears has absolutely sent me.

Alexis Petridis summing up everything that's magnificent about Total Eclipse of the Heart. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

meanwhile in a super serious country near you all the normal people are pulling for *checks notes*.. Lord Binface

Good guy birdie feeds another bird who has a partially missing beak: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

This is absolutely shameful - from both Tice and the Telegraph

Bang. Recall that Zelensky was a television comedian before becoming president of Ukraine.

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Ha ha! Discuss. Legislation www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw2/7/0...

Unhappy with NATO because it (its members) did not support the territorial conquest of a NATO member or a war of aggression against Iran.

"Trump messed up this war so badly that the U.S. aim now is just to get back to something like the pre-war status quo. And at this point, even that looks unachievable." Via @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social, there's zero indication Trump grasps the situation he's created at the most fundamental level.

Second wave radicals like Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis knew they had to break off from the anti-war movement and start independent feminist groups when women tried to speak at an anti-Nixon protest, and men in the crowd yelled “Take her off the stage and fuck her.”

It’s an undeniable fact that Count Binface will represent the people of Clacton more effectively in parliament than Nigel Farage has. He might even hold surgeries there.

Wait, if only Count Binface stands against Nigel Farage in Clacton, do Ofcom rules mean they have to be given equal prominence and both included in any debates?

Please tell me this is true.

I dunno, mine’s the Christ mosaic from Cefalù, not sure where that leaves me…

This bit from the NYT Vance story describes basically all of ultra-right-wing chud classics and medievalism: it *feels* ancient or medieval - or what they think that should be - despite actually being very modern, because it fits their neo-fascist ideology.

agree. to add: it would be cool in general for online culture to self consciously cultivate a couple middle gears between totally writing off the value of a person and nihilist total impunity

The victim in this horrendous case is not calling for it, but honestly I’d just like to see dockless electric hire bikes banned. They’re a menace and extremely dangerous. Casual cyclists can get by fine with standard hire bikes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I do think the point at which I fundamentally decided that the Americans cannot be allowed to pretend they are a football country was when one of them yesterday compared it to WWE and said getting upset about backroom dealings is equally silly.