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It happens so much — it's so endemic — that there's a danger you get numb to it. I can't explain why this one hurt me so bad. Please, please spend a moment to watch this. And imagine it's your mum, sister, daughter, partner or friend. These people are monsters. There's no other word.
Israeli settlers, all men, brutally attacked a US journalist, a woman, in an attempted lynching. The Israeli military provided the attackers with cover using tear gas and machine gun fire. Palestinians intervened to rescue her from being beaten to death.
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🔴 Reform Councillor Who Slammed Angela Rayner on Tax Owed HMRC Over £250,000 Through Failed Firms EXCLUSIVE: Wigan Reform councillor David Bowker railed against the former Deputy Prime Minister, whilst repeatedly leaving taxpayers out of pocket himself bylinetimes.com/2026/06/09/r...
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www.msn.com/en-us/sports... “Africa's best referee denied entry to USA, set to be ruled out of FIFA World Cup”
Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...
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Nazis were in the forefront of yesterday evening's protests in Southampton where anger over the murder of Henry Nowak was inflamed by Nigel Farage and others, and turned into an anti-police riot. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/06/nazi...
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If you don’t want politicians re-writing history for political gain please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call out this absolute rubbish with the actual facts. If UK news shows are not up to the job let’s do it ourselves
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it. We cannot allow him & others to rewrite history. youtu.be/vL7_mwSNMvc?...
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After invading Venezuela Trump threatens Colombia. Describes Cuba as “ready to fall”, reasserts desire to take control of Greenland. Threatens action against a number of other countries, including Mexico and Iran. The 1930s being repeated, Trump building the US Reich. archive.ph/rmtmG
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Background to yesterday's violence is this banner unfurled by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans on Tuesday evening. Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters (traditionally left-wing and strongly anti-Netanyahu) were angered at what they saw as Maccabi supporters comparing them to Hamas. www.ynetnews.com/sport/articl...
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The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office
Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made." Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018
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🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Another American Idiot, from team Trump, pushing a stupid narrative about fossil fuels. They are the cause of high prices not the answer. These peeps should stay out of our biz, in my view. buff.ly/2WuCr6N
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Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions. This happened to me *literally today*.
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK. So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
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Crazy just got crazier: Botafogo (owner: John Textor) wants Lyon (owner: John Textor) to pay them €65m to compensate for the sale of players (like Luiz Henrique) at less than their actual value. (Via the excellent @cafefutbol.bsky.social, a recommended follow). www.abola.pt/noticias/bot...
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After 3 years of being unable to name Thomas Partey as the PL star under investigation for alleged rapes, we now can as he’s been charged with 6 offences against 3 women between 2021 & 2022. The previous issue was privacy; now we must be wary of prejudicing the trial. www.nytimes.com/athletic/647...
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Before 2008, there had only been one treble from the "big five" leagues in 53 years. There have now been seven in 17 years Not a coincidence this was rise of the super club amid an economic crash, to go with multiple other forces... bsky.app/profile/migu...
My book, ‘States of Play’, is out now. It is really a modern history of football, and how it has been transformed by three main forces: geopolitics, especially autocratic states; a very western capitalism; the game’s own greed and failures of authority geni.us/StatesOfPlay
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Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Parts Used In Weapons to Russian Supplier. Sold almost $2m worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency. archive.ph/BTca8
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Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.