No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with routinely insulting European partners if Mark Rutte is just going to sit there an smirk while he does it... Wouldn't NATO do better to have a chief with some sort of backbone?

I'm trying to arrange an interview with the man wearing a bin.

Game on, Nige.

God I love my country.

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

There have been long minutes of long-winded self-pity from #Farage on a statement on Musk's platform. Can someone please wake me when we learn the actual point for his "announcement"?

"Making money is not a crime" says Nigel Farage, who kept his £5 million bung from a crypto billionaire completely secret until it was exposed by the Guardian

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

Headed to the #Mediterranean this summer? #InvasiveSpecies are changing the ecosystem and the lives of the fishing communities. And the best way you can help, is to eat them! christiancummins1.substack.com/p/the-fisher...

That #Trump energetically intervenes with #Infantino to try to influence World Cup results seems disappointing to many Europeans, given his failure to intervene with Putin to stop #Russia firing missiles at Ukrainian citizens. #BiggerPicture #Priorities

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell "You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"

"The Wall Street Journal wrote the Americans "came into this #WorldCup with every conceivable home advantage," including home support and, controversially, "assistance from the Oval Office," but still could not match Belgium on the field. " www.globaltimes.cn/page/202607/...

One day of getting up at 3am to watch a football match has given me massive respect for our @fm4.orf.at Morning Show teams... #jetlag

"Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. Football must never become a playground for political power." Sepp Blatter When Sepp Blatter has the moral highground, it is a very strange and worrying world! #Balogun

"When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined," #Uefa said in a statement. #FIFA #Balogun www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

So England's Jordan Henderson didn't play a minute of at the #EstadioAzteca, but he got a yellow card for complaining and then ended up hospitalized with a wrist injury sustained celebrating, after tumbling over an advertising board. That's the sort of performance I admire. #EngMex #ManOfTheMatch

Yes, people really value their #nature and #biodiversity. Please note this. And also they need the feeling that the rules of the land are not rigged and that their collective rights and votes and opinions count more than behind closed-doors pressure from moneyed people.

So #FIFA hadn't spared a player from a #WorldCup red-card ban since Garrincha in 1962 — that one reportedly took a bribe and a vanishing witness. This time it's a co-host's striker... #Trump's peace prize, #Iran's travel/ticket restrictions... how do you feel about this? www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

"There’s something almost defiant, in hindsight, about the sheer unguarded happiness in this recording. It was made by a man who, within months, would put everything on the line for a friend’s right to speak freely, and lose his own freedom to sing in the process." fm4.orf.at/story/soul-k...

This story reminds me of my #lionfish story from #Cyprus #invasivespecies www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

On @fm4.orf.at #SunnySideUp kicks off the summer holidays today with ☀️ East German star Manfred Krug's joyful '76 holiday anthem, recorded months before it got him banned from singing, an incredible song.South Sudan's former child soldier Emmanuel Jal + #WorldCup love for Brazil & Norway fm4.orf.a

"They know what is being released into the air around them. Emissions of benzene, which is highly carcinogenic, are among the highest in the US here. Methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and sulphur dioxide are among other pollutants" #Aramco www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Everyone seems excited about the "Bist du deppert!" (are you crazy!") commentary in #Austria, but, by far, my favourite moment was when Sidny Cabral scored an absolutely screamer for Cape Verde against Argentina and Roman Mählich said, I think, "Mah, ich bin bewusstlos!" (I am knocked unconscious)

Legal doctrines first developed to govern Native nations, argues @rebeccanagle.bsky.social, were later adapted into the frameworks that determine how the #USA treats immigrants and non-citizens today. The mechanics built then are still running #America250 #Freedom250 fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3113...

Of all the games Sir David Attenborough is now excluded from, I fear this will hurt the most

"We should celebrate the truth, we should celebrate all of it, you know, instead of just regurgitating these half-truths and these myths about our founding. I don’t think it is beneficial for us as a country“ says @rebeccanagle.bsky.social #USA250 #America250 #Freedom250 fm4.orf.at/story/USA-25...

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

"It's always been ruled by force and not by consent. And we haven't ever addressed that. We've just allowed it to fester for two and a half centuries." 🇺🇸 Cherokee journalist @rebeccanagle.bsky.social is asking Americans to look past the fireworks tomorrow. #America250 fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3110...

The #DeclarationOfIndependence of the #US includes the troubling sentence: "the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions." On @fm4.orf.at online an on-air we'll look our how this sentiment manifested itself in policy:

"I actually really believe that the reason that authoritarianism is rising in the #UnitedStates, and the reason that it's been so hard for people to fight it, is because there's been a part of the U.S. government that's always been authoritarian." Rebecca Nagl #America250 fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3110...

Can Newsweek can portray #Germany as a failing country because a guy missed a penalty, can Fairtrade insinuate #Kane has a colonial mindset for saying "these countries" and was Austria's near loss to Algeria briefly "one of the most bitter moments in Austrian history"? fm4.orf.at/story/world-...

Nothing is more tiresome during World Cup time that long articles in serious publications linking a football result to the soul of the nation: Newsweek (I won't link it) has an article The "Decline of Germany" with "This latest humiliation is the sign of a broader, unmistakable decline." Really?

I met some young Austrians with a plan to get #CO2 out od the atmosphere and into #soil using volcanic dust: fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3109...

Now #Paraguay has beaten #Germany, the people are celebrating today as spontaneous national holiday. I thought I'd celebrate the troubled, eccentric and massively overlooked story of Paraguay with a warm book recommendation: christiancummins1.substack.com/p/red-earth-...

Oh, #Paraguay just did what my childhood in 1990s England persuaded me was a cruelly impossible feat; beating the #Germany on #penalties. This is messing with my head #GerPar

"There is still this fierce fight against facts, science, preparedness, and investment [in clean energy], so we are failing people. We need to reject this kind of bullshit based on lies, and against people’s interests.” Says #EU green chief: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whenever I watch a Youtube video, I have to sit through a advert of a crazed Austrian shouting at me about investing in real estate, or dozens of Americans trying to tell me that being polite is a sign of weakness "Never say 'sorry'" or "Never say 'excuse me'"... and it all works, they make me swear

We featured the Austrian band #Supermax on Sunny Side Yesterday. My colleague Stefan - the true genius behind our show - pointed me in the direction of this interview: If you understand German, or rather Viennese - enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cusq...

It was the spirit that grabbed me, a vague nostalgic longing for places, times and people I have loved and miss. There’s a particular quality to certain pieces of music: they burrow straight from your ears into your heart... But the song also works on a much deeper level fm4.orf.at/story/jamaic...

Maybe nuclear isn't the energy solution in a warming world?

AFRICAN FOOTBALL MAKES HISTORY 🤯🌍 9 out of 10 CAF nations storm into the knockout stage, a landmark moment for the continent on the world stage 👏🔥 🇩🇿 Algeria ✔️ 🇨🇻 Cape Verde ✔️ 🇨🇩 DR Congo ✔️ 🇪🇬 Egypt ✔️ 🇬🇭 Ghana ✔️ 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast ✔️ 🇲🇦 Morocco ✔️ 🇸🇳 Senegal ✔️ 🇿🇦 South Africa ✔️ 🇹🇳 Tunisia ❌

There is a gorgeous & very moving song on @fm4.orf.at's #sunnysideup today. A stunning Jamaican single lamenting how #emigration is hollowing out communities. “If we put hands in hands, we can build a better nation, instead of going to another island... Come on Home" fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3105...

Here is a fact I have stolen! #Austria vs. #Algeria was the first game in World Cup history to feature a go-ahead and tying goal by either team in stoppage time 😱

On Paris' future air condition use during a 9-day heatwave like in 2003: if only all public buildings are running AC, not even the homes, outside air 🌡️increases by a lethal 3.6C due to AC's warm air release into streets. While 10% more parks & proper insulation mean -4C. (Parks, not car parks…😁)

He is shouting in his ear: "You will never have to buy you own Krügerl back home in Austria ever again, dear Sasa." A satisfactory, 40 second working day. #AUTALG

How to celebrate 🇦🇹⚽ in a heatwave? Langorously: with @fm4.orf.at's #SunnySideUp from 10am: Tropical, soulful, joyous music for a heatwave. Vintage rarities, a heartbreaking Jamaican gem from 1973, a Cameroonian legend and the best new music around. Come find the shade with us. 🌴 fm4.orf.at

If I could like this ten times, I would. Puts it all in a nutshell.

What an end to the #Austria vs #Algeria match! Two stoppage time goals and a mini breakdown for my colleague in commentary. But Kalajdzic kept a very cool head!

You really want to tune into Sunny Side Up tomorrow, it might be the only way to survive this heatwave and we have something very special: substack.com/home/post/p-...