Top new #lofc sticker - more of this sort of thing

It's the companies who own the platforms that need to be policed - not teenagers. And the worst-behaved people on the internet, by miles, are adults

This feels stupid. Regulate the platforms, don’t ban kids. An upside of regulating the platforms is that it isn’t only kids who would benefit. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

We spoke to one young family this weekend, who have a six month old. They live in one room. They are limited in the work they can do. They get £50 total a week and £30 goes on baby foid. They have a bed and two chairs. No toys. Nothing.

I went to the Texas Republican Party Convention so that you didn’t have to: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🚨 "If you tolerate this then your county will be next" Yorks chair Colin Graves will lead panel & be responsible for appointing other members They will make recomms to club board "but cannot mandate or require any actions to be taken".

The real question is “What kind of society do we want” The Economist’s answer is “One which favours the wealthy” It doesn’t have to be that way.

History shows us they are more scared of this than the actual fascism at our doorsteps.

I can't see how taxing the ultra-wealthy "deters innovation". It's often not them who have the ideas, but their employees. (See Elon Musk). Norway, for example has a wealth tax, and doesn't seem unduly hampered. All that's being asked is they make a fair contribution to the society they're part of!

Nine years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, we remember the 72 lives lost. Structural inequalities were laid bare that night. The Grenfell community has waited too long for accountability, we must see justice for all those lost and affected.

Alternatively the fact that Our Brave Boys were able to intercept this vessel on *current* resources suggests there's no need for a budget increase

did you guys know they still allowed good news

Musk is a generationally repulsive monster. But he didn't make the Today Program's Justin Webb say that migrants in NI “have been able to come here and get access to services’ that local people can’t”. He didn't make the BBC head its live coverage of the pogroms with “Belfast Knife Attack Latest”.

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

The woke football flags are so good. From the river to the key is incredible

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

If there had been a crucial by-election in, say, Bristol - I wonder if the Westminster commentariat would be quite as keen on playing endless vox pops when people might be complaining about Gaza, student loans and that Labour isn't standing up enough against the far right.

If this is true, then a wealthy powerful man who'd been accused of the rape of a child was barred from contact with the women's and youth teams of a Premier League club and yet no one at the club was aware of it. Really? How was it policed? Was Sullivan trusted simply to keep his distance?

Good open group-game football that

Was the same in the World Club cup. Know a couple of lads that went to a Dortmund game in Cincinnati. Was 'sold out' on FIFA site, yet tickets were on resale sites for like $10 an hour before KO. Attendance announced as sub-15k (26k capacity) & they reckoned it was 5k absolute top whack on the day.

Big fan of this Toronto stadium - four different stands of different sizes. Not enough of that in the modern game

Fans from Ivory Coast and Senegal have been denied visas to enter the United States for the World Cup (AFP) sports.yahoo.com/articles/vis...

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

My guess is that they're claiming all the tickets sold to scalpers who haven't been able to sell them on the second hand markets as "sold", like we do with season tickets

Reckon this is gonna be the best World Cup ever for pretendances - ie half-full stadiums declared as official sellouts, enabling Infantino to lie about "record crowds"

Freelance Jun26: Google is liable as publisher of AI output - says German court.

Sad news about Kenny Jackett. RIP. It may not have worked out for him at #lofc but he brought Omar Beckles, Theo Archibald, Paul Smyth, Darren Pratley and Tom James to the club, who all played key roles in the successes that followed

World Cup preview ep is live! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p... open.spotify.com/episode/1tpz... on.soundcloud.com/4QCgeuY70BpJ...

Bolton Council called this “a deeply distressing incident” and there’s been no response from the prime minister. This is the definition of terrorism. 4 kids could have been burned alive.

A World Cup host that wants to kill you, ban you, crash your economy or if you’re lucky just make you pay a vast amount for something yellow that has never been an egg. Come on America. we’re better than this www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This is happening all across Belfast

Someone who describes The Troubles as "identity politics" isn't remotely qualified to play kingmaker in UK politics She will drag the country into the abyss

Masculinity, to many people, seems to be whatever the loudest person with the most money to gain by defining it says that it is.

"All they want to be is Irish." Yeah try that one on the Shankhill mate

Yep. If it looks like a pogrom and walks like a pogrom and quacks like a pogrom, we can call it a fucking pogrom.

What a friend we have in Jesus

"Opposed to using AI for her software-engineering job, Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a religious exemption." A lot of folks are about to find God.

I guess the question to ask, when assessing the seriousness and fairness of all this, is "Would Stokes and Atkinson have binned from a Test team if this was an Ashes series?"

UEFA and their currently leadership absolutely hate Infantino, so this is really top-tier trolling 👌

As I wrote at the time of the Ballymena pogroms, I'm old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the home of disabled child because he was insuficciently Protestant. I'm old enough to remember this because it happened in 2024. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

The bitterest irony about the Belfast riots is they're led by a bunch of people whose entire identity is built around being descendants of immigrants who refused to integrate and imposed their culture on the local populace.

Gianni Infantino hadn't held a proper press conference in three years He still hasn't This was a Trumpian ramble where he tried to reframe reality and avoid difficult truths www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

why haven't all the other referees shown solidarity with Omar Abdulkadir Artan and downed tools?