"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

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

"don't be a rapist" doesn't seem like a particularly high bar to clear, dating history-wise, but thanks for telling on yourself for the ten thousandth time

Apparently that electronic tag has Strava RTE news: France's Le Pen says she's still running www.rte.ie/news/europe/...

So he resigned, but Trump wants him back in, and the courts say he has to wear a bracelet, have I got that right?

I mean that's certainly one way to keep the story about his money at the top of the news for a few more months and make sure a lot more people hear about it.

The prime minister's house got firebombed last year.

Nobody will seriously ask whether Britain is ready for a Catholic Prime Minister. Andy Burnham can thank Rishi Sunak for that. But an Evertonian?! My Eastern Eye column this week on faith, politics & my own Evertonian Catholic view of Andy Burnham's ascent! www.easterneye.biz/andy-burnham...

“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

If you didn't bother to watch the Farage press conference, here's the short version:

🧵 Amid all the speculation about Nigel Farage's 2pm statement, it's worth noting paragraph 40 of the Procedural Protocol to the MPs' Code of Conduct. If he announces he's resigning and seeking a by-election, that would not automatically end the investigation into whether he breached the Code in...

Struggling to see how all but a minority of people could be forced to breastfeed a militant but there you have it.

Danny Healy-Rae asks the government to investigate whether cancer diagnoses may be missed in blood tests due to the presence of the Covid-19 vaccine.

So Lowe and Davey both calling for Farage to pay for the by-election so far. This is going to become a theme.

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Betraying American law to help… Iran

That’s not why nobody wants to give you the time of day, Nigel.

World Cup 2322, Greenland, tropical heat. As in every Portugal game, the mummy of Cristiano Ronaldo is wheeled onto the pitch while 10 players battle the opposing team.

The other problem for Farage is that once the media are aware that if they ask you about the money you EXPLODE they then keep on asking about the money because there's a good chance it'll make great TV.

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

Can one of the American law professors please check if he's allowed to do this?

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Belgium’s overwhelming defeat makes it hard for Trump to lie the match was rigged. A lesson for us midterm voters.

Not sure its an ideal time for him to lecture a Brussels-headquartered organisation about defence...

Belgium players mocking the US and Trump's meddling in the World Cup by doing the Trump dance after scoring the 4th goal against the USMNT

Hydration break (ht @brokenbanker.bsky.social )

Donald Trump has no shame, but Folarin Balogun is a class act. He spoke to Belgian head coach, Rudi Garcia, after the match. Garcia said of Balogun "He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame. That's what I told him." H/T @resistrebelrevolt.net

"Spirit card"? Lifetime ban is too good for them

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“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

www.ft.com/content/7a0f... If I was a political aide with a conviction for fraud, under scrutiny about undeclared financial support… I simply would not write a book called “How to Launder Money”.

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Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.

More of this, give me more! I love it!

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u... "Nicholas Pinto is among the losers. A frequent crypto trader who voted for Mr. Trump in 2024, Mr. Pinto said he invested a total of roughly $500,000 in the #$TRUMP coin, and has now lost about half that investment". Feels like a new Darwin award is needed

Die Linke pulled off a surprise win in Germany’s most recent federal election and has suddenly become one of the most closely watched parties in Europe’s progressive politics. Behind the success lies a continuing structural transformation of its geographic support base. A short thread🧵

FACTCHECK: A guide to manufacturing headlines, by the Times 1) highlight upfront costs of an “eco” home (EV, heat pump, solar) 2) pretend that petrol cars and gas boilers are free (yes really) 3) count upfront “eco” costs twice, for good measure 4) that’s it!

By his own admission, he had no idea what a red card was, but he knew -- better than the ref, better than FIFA -- that what Balogun did did not meet the standards for getting a red card, which, again, he had never heard of before. This is like watching JD lecture the pope, but more corrupt.

This report suggests they're ready to arbitrate today if necessary: "CAS has set up an ad hoc division, external to hear swift and independent resolution of appeals against decisions at the tournament.". www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers. by @TheEconomist

Wild things are happening on Twitter dot com

What a wonderful day for discourse.

The false equivalence here where people try to say that bad officiating is equivalent to corruption is so annoying. Bad officiating is part of sports. Getting your own unlucky break overturned is corrupt, unless everyone else is getting the same, which they are not.