Le groupe identitaire Némésis se finance grâce à Paypal, qui ferme les yeux

This story was broken by me this morning in @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

I have an exclusive in today's Observer. Four women who allege they were trafficked by Mohamed Al Fayed are filing complaints with the police watchdog over the Met's handling of their cases. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

‘Emma Hayes has described the difference between men’s and women’s football as cortisol v. dopamine. Under her management between 2012 and 2024, Chelsea won the Women’s Super League seven times, the FA Cup five times and the League Cup twice.’ Natasha Chahal: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Contrairement à ce qu'affirmait Yann Barthes dans Quotidien, la canicule ne frappe pas tout le monde de la même manière ! 🌡️ Les habitants des quartiers populaires figurent parmi les plus exposés aux fortes chaleur et à la précarité énergétique. 👉 www.socialter.fr/article/ineg...

Great and entirely relatable piece about the humbling experience of trying to tame a chaotic dog. (Have I moved house due to said chaotic dog? Yes.)

Story of my life, except I've got THREE teams this World Cup.

This morning in Paris: a woman collapsed at the social security office from the heat. At xhildcare centres with reflective recovery blankets taped to their windows, staff are hosing down toddlers in a baking courtyard. Children everywhere as schools are closed.

Britain is still stuck on its ex – but after 10 long, lonely years, does the EU feel the same way? | Katy Lee

You couldn’t pay me to be in Paris during a 100 degree heatwave.

John Terry a fun answer to the question of "can we put someone in this VIP box who is somehow even worse than Gianni Infantino?"

Considering asking my local Picard if they will let me give birth there in August... www.liberation.fr/societe/sant...

Just a reminder that Marta is playing another World Cup next year...

DR CONGO'S STATUE SUPERFAN HAS ARRIVED AT THE WORLD CUP 🚨 Known as 'Lumumba Vea', the supporter who stands still all game in homage to the country's revered first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, has landed in Guadalajara before the Leopards' game vs. Colombia on Tuesday 🇨🇩

Si la canicule vous fatigue, pensez au pétrolier TotalEnergies qui a fait 5,8 milliards $ de profits en trois mois et qui n'a payé aucun impôt sur les sociétés en 2019, 2020, 2021 et 2023.

This is a very silly story. Only one person has expressed a stupid opinion on this, which she has since apologised for. As the piece notes, Doku has received a great deal of support, as he should do. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

As has become customary, it is time to share this piece from 2019 about trying to survive extreme heat in Paris, and why it is so exceptionally difficult. www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/...

If you would like to know what fifteen men think about the World Cup, you can find out here. If you would like to know what a woman journalist might make of it all, you'll just have to use your imagination. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Marta.

I am very pregnant and it is hard to find the words to express my rage at having spent this entire year carefully avoiding such menaces as soft cheese and potting soil while governments are directly responsible for exposing me to extreme heat that massively increases my risk of birth complications.

Panicule.

….i feel like football federations put out the ‘bat signal’ and he responds, except that it’s a pristine white shirt on a coat hanger, flailing in the sky

I love it when teams smash the Renard button in an emergency. welcome to copa Mundial 2026 Herve. salut. what a wild ride. www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

Late to this excellent @ellehardy.bsky.social piece on transfer market journalism, the cravenness of Infantino's FIFA and what football has become – but boy is it excellent. goldengoal.world/2026/06/10/f...

I last saw him in 2024. Front row, sobbed when it was over. Simply one of the greatest jazz artists ever to live. A titan.

This week I spoke to an Iranian feminist activist who has attended the past four men's and women's World Cups to campaign for women to be given free access to stadiums in Iran. She had a ticket to Monday's game, but was denied a visa because she's Iranian. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

These Iranian feminist activists had no problem taking their campaigns to World Cups in Qatar and Russia. But this one in the United States? Not even close. Great story from @megclement.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

This week I spoke to an Iranian feminist activist who has attended the past four men's and women's World Cups to campaign for women to be given free access to stadiums in Iran. She had a ticket to Monday's game, but was denied a visa because she's Iranian. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Extremely cool story alert: scientists find Earth's largest whale graveyard at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. By that @daniellawler.bsky.social. www.yahoo.com/news/science...

"The only meaningful solution – a smaller and more modest World Cup, less beholden to autocratic power, more accountable to its public – is also the only solution that can be safely ruled out." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Many French-English or English-French puns do not work. This one, however, is absolute perfection. Chapeau, @cahiersdufootball.bsky.social.

Affaire Lyhanna : la gendarmerie nationale reçoit quatre plaintes de mineurs par heure, selon son directeur général

An observation about this World Cup compared to the previous two. Russia and Qatar made massive efforts for obvious reasons to change public perceptions and really went extra mile with hosting. The United States seems to not care about external reputational harm in same way. And we are seeing that.

Hallucinant. Sur 150 journalistes français·es envoyé·es à la Coupe du Monde, seuls 10 sont des femmes. Et dans la presse écrite, c'est encore pire : 2 sur 80. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Scientists found yeast growing inside the guts of a frozen mummy for thousands of years. They used it to create a “very, very good” sourdough bread.

Massive respect to Athletic Bilbao! 🙌

The world is terrible but there is new Eddy Current Suppression Ring. pitchfork.com/news/eddy-cu...

Fascinating and also a bit icky.

Mais quel week-end pour les sportif·ves français·es.

As the stifling Paris heatwave drags on, it's a great day to stay hydrated, stay inside and wish bad things upon Arsenal.

A mini-masterpiece.

Roland-Garros : après un match à couper le souffle, Moïse Kouame devient le plus jeune joueur qualifié pour le troisième tour au XXIᵉ siècle

Musa interviewed Zohran Mamdani for GQ www.gq.com/story/zohran...

Highly recommend Adrian Chiles on his Tampa Bay Rays (!!!!!) fandom, taking his daughter to the Brewers season opener ("she was bored out of her mind") and baseball finding its way into the British vernacular

Paris heatwave update

Force créatrice à la recherche du son le plus authentique, Sonny Rollins, le "colosse du saxophone" aux œuvres aussi impétueuses que contemplatives, était le dernier des grands de l'âge d'or du jazz. Il est mort lundi à l'âge de 95 ans.

Sonny Rollins, probably the world's greatest living genius, has left us. I'll be spending the morning with the Freedom Suite and this wonderful interview from 2020. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Former Home Secretary and now Reform MP Suella Braverman promised the party would reverse decriminalisation. Now the party's candidate for Makerfield believes abortion is murder. Reform is bringing abortion into its culture war - as my investigation reveals www.opendemocracy.net/aabortion-re...

Important read from @meganclement.bsky.social about Nemesis, the French group who attended the Tommy Robinson rally dressed ironically in niqabs. ‘The group’s main focus is violence against women, and only incidents perpetrated by non-white men or immigrants.’ www.fullerproject.org/editions/far...

My profile of Némésis, a French far-right group claiming to be feminists who focus almost exclusively on violence against women perpetrated by non-white men. They performed an offensive stunt in niqabs at Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration march last weekend. www.fullerproject.org/editions/far...