Incredibly, five years after Socios' crypto fan tokens showed themselves to be a complete con - a deceptively marketed, unregulated money fire for investors offering nothing of value to fans - the Scottish FA have signed up to mug Scotland supporters.

Arsenal may not have won the double, but Peri-Peri Saka has broken contain and made it to America

As your Prime Minister, I will make it illegal for companies to claim they are experiencing an unexpected volume of calls unless they can demonstrate that, at the time the claim was made, calls were 125% of the average volume for the time of day, the day of the week and the time of the year. 1/

Captain, my Captain 🫡

"What if cleaning wasn't a chore? What if it was... jazz?" That's worse, you do get how that's worse, right?

Fascinating episode of Media Confidential where Gavin Millar KC, an expert on media law, sets out not just the problem with Slapps but a practical framework for how the courts might deal with them and so protect freedom of speech. podcastaddict.com/media-confid...

Must be a different Mel Morris, right? Because no one with any vague acquaintance with Mel Morris would take his word on how business models can be reinvented. Wait... no, it is that Mel Morris.

The Arsenal parade today was a joy. Everything the decline-fetishists & flag-shaggers hate. A confident successful multicultural community celebrating together.

I was in London today and it was glorious. A tribute to one of the world’s great multicultural cities and to the power of sport to bring joy and togetherness.

Two of these three are facing either ethics complains or criminal complaints. FIFA president with head of South American football (subject to ethics complaint) and Argentina FA president (subject to criminal charge)

This is a complete outrage. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Find someone who looks at you the way Declan Rice looks at a bottle of L'Oréal.

Fascinated to know what the grift is with this account that has repeatedly followed me in recent weeks. The posts are vague, derivative (if not AI), with no stats, quotes or links, and then there's the passive income klaxon.

"Now firmly part of a group of leading figures with multi-dimensional influence across the international sports business, the Forest owner..." The Forest website puts Pravda to shame.

One day, perhaps when it's too late, the Labour party will wake up to the moral and political absurdity of trying to cultivate people with "legitimate concerns." From the off, it was always bogus and racist - and, if nothing else, a bidding war it could never win.

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

@uglygame.bsky.social I see South Shields are now based in the British Virgin Isles 🧐

Pleased about the divorce. I don't think she was the woman to take us forward. Will always be grateful for the kids though.

The modern fan mindset in one post.

Just legitimate concern patriotic lovers of their country. And unbelievably..... www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Just catching up on the bid of Turki Al-Sheikh for Derby and stunned to see that not one report I read found space to mention Al-Sheikh's reported involvement in arbitrary arrests, detention and torture, including in MBS' famous 2017 kidnapping and shakedown of some of the kingdom's richest men.

An alarm goes off in DCMS HQ. The Secretary of State snoozes it again.

“The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/28/the-spacex-ipo-works-like-a-crypto-fraud-but-with-ai/ > SpaceX is doing a crypto-style fraud, but on the real stock market.

There is no escaping the culture war.

There is no escaping the culture war.

It is not merely that writers who use AI are bad at writing, it's that they don't even understand what writing is.

After a year of putting up hundreds of flags, the local domestic violence convicts have taken to showing their respect by flytipping the flag of St George.

ZKP, the former official crypto scam partner of Barca, has pulled a fast one on its few remaining customers. Having promised that the total coin supply would be fixed at 257bn, it has quietly updated its website to show it as 714bn, reducing the value of customer investments by nearly two-thirds. 1/

Congratulations on your parasol. Now please move to the side of the pavement.

ZKP, the former official crypto scam partner of Barca, has pulled a fast one on its few remaining customers. Having promised that the total coin supply would be fixed at 257bn, it has quietly updated its website to show it as 714bn, reducing the value of customer investments by nearly two-thirds. 1/

You too can face a future of scorching temperatures, raging fire and endless inescapable evil, says Blair.

Sitting on my terrace in my luxury flat imagining all the wonderful, historic events that took place in a former South London police station.

With the World Cup two weeks tomorrow, just checking in on Fifa's $150m Adu Dhabi royal family-backed prediction markets partner. Oh...

We've been saying the UK has a big dirty money problem. Now we know how BIG! New research from our friends @thefinancelab.bsky.social has exposed that around £325 billion from financial crime, money laundering, corruption, illegal trade & tax dodging flows through the UK every year. 1/x

Maybe it’s not all about ‘protecting our women’ after all? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I didn’t even want to draw attention to the Enhanced Games for “making fun of it” purposes but then I saw a video of the guy who thinks he can live forever hyping up a guy’s steroid usage under an umbrella to shield himself from UV rays

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Yeah these guys are suspiciously slow. Are there any checks to make sure none of them are clean?

This is a very helpful analogy.

Even if it happened, the result wouldn't be a renewal of English football any more than Leicester winning the title ushered in a new era of competitiveness at the top of the league. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a great moment.

The two kinds of Serious Talks in Hollywood movies: 1. "You know what the difference between you and me is?..." 2. "You know, we're not so different you and I..."

I’ve been thinking about the unbroken chain of culture and creation, with people inspired to create things by older generations, developing their own work, then passing it down to the next - this cultural transfer fully supported by an economic one. AI could completely sever this chain if we let it.

TIL that Sade is not a female solo artist. Sade is a band, with the same four members since 1982, one of whom is the lead singer, Sade Adu. I don't know how I could have not known this. It's as though I'd thought Jon Bon Jovi had been a solo artist his entire career, backed by session musicians.

The drug-fuelled, far-right Enhanced Games are today, offering the chance to watch some no-mark athlete's heart explode in the games' backers' quest for eternal life. theuglygame.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/t...

This is the most "keep politics out of sport" post ever from Tynes. Me expressing public support of white supremacy is fine, but you publicly criticising me harms the team. Mfer was a kicker, so he hasn't even got the excuse of blows to the head.

Free Deirdre Rachid!