The US should never host another tournament after World Cup debacle - The Independent

The most successful people I know are by far the poorest - The i Paper

The most successful people I know are by far the poorest - The i Paper

Council of Europe questions integrity of World Cup in scathing letter to Fifa hours before final - The Independent

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue. Teachers are reporting children feeling ill and unable to concentrate in overheated classrooms. So why has the Government failed to recognise it in new safeguarding guidance for schools? #EduSky @eastangliabylines.co.uk @geogramblings.com

Andrew and Tristan Tate, influencers who have faced years of criminal investigations, were arrested by federal marshals in Miami on Saturday in connection with new charges of rape and sex trafficking in England, U.S. and British law enforcement officials said. trib.al/SFyRJ0k

Cheaper bills. Better transport. More affordable housing. Could the answer be less privatisation rather than more competition? A new paper linked to Andy Burnham sets out a striking vision of what his government might become. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

curious slip of the tongue by Nigel Farage www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Iran struck a military base in Jordan on Friday, killing two U.S. service members and leaving one missing, according to the U.S. military. It was the first time American soldiers were killed by Iranian fire since a truce unraveled in recent weeks. trib.al/4GtoGg2

No more Thames Water deals that allow them to dump sewage, just so they can make a profit 90% of countries in the world don't have to negotiate to keep their water utilities alive. Why? They are in public ownership

When you're being arrested for trafficking and child sex offences at 6pm, but are due on stage as the genie at the Joe Longthorne Theatre at 7pm.

Fallout Over Farage Sleaze Row Continues As Reform Slips Further Down The Polls - HuffPost UK

Lord how illegal is shit when Trump’s own appointees are resigning?

What I hope everyone reading this story actually takes away from it is that a household with two people each earning £38k are in the richest 20 per cent of the population.

Summed up brilliantly by James Acaster: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6I...

Lib Dems urge FA and Uefa to withdraw from Fifa - Anna Sabine MP, Spokesperson for Culture, Media and Sport said Fifa behaves "more like a closed-shop cartel than a neutral global sporting body". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep

New York City should have the best buses in the world. That’s our goal. But the first step is incredibly important: hearing from New Yorkers in the neighborhoods where these big infrastructure changes will be made.

Corporation Tax is set at 25%. But HMRC collects just 13.2%. This is mostly because companies like Amazon, McDonalds, Starbucks, Vodafone, BP, Shell... Pay little or none at all. Make the billionaires pay their tax and raise £80bn a year This is how Burnham could raise money

South East Water warns over survival as funds dry up. SEW has £1.7bn debt Pays interest at the rates of 6% - 10% 2011-2025, paid £947m dividends, £401m interest 104m litres of water lost daily to leaks Customers fleeced Takes bad management to destroy monopoly suppliers with captive customers.

The final pledge is to help one Clacton family put their bins out each week. The others take aim at Farage’s overseas trips, outside earnings and local record. Count Binface may be wearing a silver helmet, but his campaign is making a serious point.

Full story: thedailybritain.co.uk/count-binfac...

Good piece. My unsolicited advice to AB would be not to fixate on the jobs & industries which have gone and aren't coming back, but on those which could/ should be the future with sustained & integrated industrial, regional, education, tax, environmental, transport & infrastructure policies.

PwC partners set for near-record £900,000 annual pay ft.trib.al/b2ASdGy

What 8 in 10 of the public want is PUBLIC OWNERSHIP - not some fudge Real public ownership, with service users, experts and local leaders on the boards Where we end up owning 100% of our services and reinvest profits Here is why [WATCH]

🟡 MAGAZINE: The News No Longer Exists By @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Twenty-four-hour news channels killed The News. They turned it from something to be compiled and considered into a constant stream of events. Nothing ever happens; now it is happening. Read the full story below.

Nigel Farage officially begins his Clacton by-election campaign with speech to small London audience www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

France and Germany pledged today to look at developing an alternative to military software provided by U.S. company Palantir, as European countries seek to lessen reliance on America.

If people show you who they are etc. etc. #farright

🟡 MAGAZINE: ‘When the Herd Moves’: Britain’s Pro-Farage Press Finally Turns Against Reform In an industry that tends to bend towards power rather than against it, the recent media pivot against Nigel Farage is less surprising than it at first appears, writes Adam… Read the full story below.

absolutely...

One of the saddest things after Brexit was seeing people who rightly opposed it cheering the decline of 🇬🇧 farming bc they believed farmers deserved it. Weakening food production, doesn’t only see farmers suffer. Eventually, empty shelves, higher prices and food insecurity reach every household.

🔴 Excellent that @andyburnham is signalling a cooler approach to Trump and the US, with more focus on domestic issues and stronger European ties. We don’t want chlorinated chicken and hormone fed beef! This is a step in the right direction after Starmer’s White House-centric strategy.

BREAKING: Per sources, Alan Dershowitz will NOT appear for his scheduled Monday interview with the House Oversight Committee regarding the Epstein files.

Andy Burnham and the inbetweeners: The implications of Britain's first Cooperative prime minister Cooperativism is not merely formal affiliation for Burnham. It is fundamental to his approach to political economy and political governance www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article...

I know it's only a PCC election with low turnout but 11% for a party that happily accepts neo-Nazis as members is really bad.

Here's the way around having to pretend that Mitch McConnell is not dead, if that is indeed the case. We should all agree on this point: if Mitch McConnell can't be wheeled to a podium for a live press conference to speak, then he is not competent to serve. newrepublic.com/post/213199/...

Millions in UK at risk of drinking water 'catastrophe' - official warning - The i Paper

In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.

Ooh.