#cans ? www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Det er ingen grenser for FIFA-presidenten.

Loans from a UAE bank were funnelled into the Libyan war effort "likely including payments to Russia’s Wagner Group". More brilliant investigative work from @thesentryorg.bsky.social

Dimitrios Psarrakis was the business partner, co-author and, for eight years, parliamentary researcher of Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP arrested in 2022 in a huge corruption investigation involving MEPs being paid to praise Qatar's human rights record ahead of the 2022 World Cup.

On Monday, we revealed that the overseer of Fifa's newest sponsor had paid a six-figure sum to settle insider trading allegations. Today, we reveal that the company's newly appointed CEO has close ties to the MEP at the heart of the Qatargate corruption scandal... josimarfootball.com/2026/04/09/m...

They’re still looking for potential survivors trapped under the rubble in Tallet El Khayat Beirut after the Israeli strike that levelled an entire building

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

NEW @theathleticfc.bsky.social White House wants FIFA to follow lead of IOC by issuing policy to bar transgender women from professional women’s soccer — with Trump yet to sign off on required government guarantees for US-led bid to host Women’s World Cup in 2031. www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...

FIFA's new "prediction market partner": - backed by UAE royal family - no working product - unlicensed in most jurisdictions - run by a man credibly accused of insider trading 👏 @uglygame.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social @samindrakunti.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2026/04/06/i...

By @sportingintel.bsky.social With some input from both @ncgeehan.bsky.social and Kunti. www.playthegame.org/news/fifa-wo...

How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Dubai is like catnip to the British far-right

‘Amazing’: how to grow a meadow in the sea - Vibrant #seagrass meadows once flourished around the UK but most have been destroyed. Now, communities and scientists are working to restore them @projectseagrass.bsky.social Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Important to point out that Jesus was never legally classed as a sexual predator nor was he ever fined for tax fraud.

Saudi Arabia, Russia and others yet again blocking progress on climate science ... > IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock #climatecrisis @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/ipcc-frustra...

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative? It’s bizarre, frankly

"The USA under President Trump ... is facing a human rights emergency marked by discriminatory immigration policies, mass detentions and arbitrary arrests by masked, armed agents" Somebody needs to remind @amnesty.org that Football Unites the World. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Academic publishing is a massive scam that impoverishes academics.

Talked with a fellow barrister ther night abt other barristers using AI to do first draft of judicial review grounds. And we were like…. “Why?” It’s our job (privilege, pleasure) to analyse that problem, formulate that argument. Why would you want a machine to attempt that first?

It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Exclusive: Approval of U.S.-led bid to host Women’s World Cup in 2031 was postponed in significant part because… Trump’s White House has not provided required govt guarantees to FIFA & host cities want much better terms than 2026. www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon over the past week, part two. More up here: www.instagram.com/p/DWYXD0Rjak... At least 1,116 people have been killed since March 2, incl 121 children, acc to min of health. At least 3,229 have been injured, incl 399 children.

My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social: FIFA just released a pair of highly anticipated decisions regarding Israel & Palestine. Taken together, they're an obscene abdication of FIFA’s own statutes & its publicly stated commitment to human rights. For @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I had a closer look at the results of the council elections in France's 20 most populated cities: 13 are now controlled by left-wing parties, with the Parti Socialiste performing best; centre/"republican" right candidates won in 6 cities. Which leaves us with Nice - extreme-right, yes, but..

For several months, people have been wondering why Reform hasn't declared any crypto donations, despite Nigel Farage saying they'd received some Now @theobserveruk.bsky.social can reveal why...

Given the western media is barely reporting this, it seems Lebanese lives matter as much as Palestinian, Iranian, and Yemeni lives. There must be some sort of pattern in there...

Given the western media is barely reporting this, it seems Lebanese lives matter as much as Palestinian, Iranian, and Yemeni lives. There must be some sort of pattern in there...

It enrages me that the Iran fiasco had basically relegated Israel’s absolutely horrific assault on Lebanon to a sideshow which barely gets noticed. That alone should be a crisis that grips the urgent attention of the entire world and nobody even notices.

Fifa has ruled that the Israel Football Association (IFA) is bringing “football into disrepute” and said that it is practising a “de facto system of segregation” by excluding Palestinians from football infrastructure in Israeli settlements. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

FIFA and the Israel Football Association: and the plot very much thickens. Yesterday FIFA Council dismissed the complaint about clubs in illegal settlements, but it also released a Disciplinary Committee into racism in Israeli football. Makes for remarkable reading. 🧵 inside.fifa.com/legal/judici...

Very much hope this development is widely and accurately reported. FIFA's assessment of the legality of West Bank settlements is plainly wrong, and they know it. Thus, they have taken a political decision to side with Israel.

FIFA's decision today to dismiss the Palestine FA's complaint against the Israeli FA is predictably shameful. FIFA's approach to this issue has been dishonest and cowardly in the face of unquestionably unlawful Israeli policies and practices. inside.fifa.com/organisation...

"The public has lost trust in government and come to think that everyone involved is corrupt." Oh? Interesting. I guess they just concluded that through their own comparative study of gov't efficacy? Or was it something else? Thoughts? Anyone?

Every day, I talk to earnest liberals who describe to me, in great detail, problems that have resulted from this ... but they won't name the cause! "Turns out, all the sudden the public is obsessed with trans girls trying to play sports." Oh? Any thoughts about why? Any at all? No? No thoughts?

... of that last half-century, upstream of virtually any other problem that you can identify, and yet in mainsteam political discourse we *never talk about it*. It's the biggest, most salient political fact of all, just sitting there, looming, and no one fucking speaks it aloud.

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

Do better, EU sports commissioner tells Infantino. www.politico.eu/article/glen...

This is a spectacular piece of writing, as moving as it is insightful.

FairSquare is preparing a follow-up complaint to the FIFA Ethics Committee. Drops Saturday, 21 March.

If this isn't enough for you, the UAE also has a ski slope in a shopping mall, and one of the highest rates of political prisoners per capita anywhere in the world.

"The UAE looks to be combining soft influence and potential hard levers of power in British politics. If its influence is not countered, the effects could be disastrous." @alexcarlen.bsky.social for Arab Digest explains why Tommy Robinson is tweeting about Yemen. arabdigest.org/sample-newsl...

"The Saudis (owners of NUFC) also want to protect fossil fuel interests and have clear climate goals; to slow the transition to renewables and keep the world hooked on oil." Interview with @frankhuisingh.bsky.social founder of @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

"Women from marginalised backgrounds – including migrant workers, poor defendants, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities – are overrepresented among those sentenced to death." The Saudi state which treats women this way owns 👆 #NUFC alqst.org/en/post/wome...

It's a very high bar but I think this might be my favourite Democracy for Sale interview yet, with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff talking about 'Muskism' And if the phrase 'sovereignty as a service' doesn't terrify you, if should.... democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-elon-m...

Nabatiyeh is being completely razed to the ground by the Israelis. It was one of the largest cities in South Lebanon, around 100,000 people. Now around 150 families left there. Video: www.instagram.com/p/DV0q4AbCBLB/

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

BREAKING: Exactly one year since she was detained, an immigration judge has just ordered the release of Leqaa Kordia — the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention. DHS has kept her, despite a magistrate judge recommending her release and an immigration judge already *twice* ordering so.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men." Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?