The captain of Iran’s National Team, Mehdi Taremi, calls out FIFA and the U.S.:
“This is a disaster World Cup. We can’t stay in the country and have to travel every time we play without any recovery. Now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. This is not fair.”
Rise in NHS hospital admissions following private treatment in Scotland.
Those who can afford it are using private hospitals.
When something goes wrong or not covered by insurance, they are dumped on to the NHS.
Profits privatised, costs socialised.
https://t.co/HHv6hJYDQx
By far my favourite Scotland vs Brazil story is the referee saying “Good luck, may the best team win” to both captains before the game in 1982 and Graeme Souness replying “I fucking hope not”
Financialisation of humanity
Vital services handed to private equity
84% of children’s homes, 80% of adult care homes in England controlled by financial investors. Private equity is a key player.
£1.5bn profit from care homes.
Public purse looted.
https://t.co/I0XaUBp0QC
Curse of Private Equity.
Former WH Smith’s small suppliers to lose half of debts in rescue plan.
Some won't be repaid for a year.
Products bought from suppliers sold but they won't be paid, with implicit threat -agree with us or else.
Knock-on effects?
https://t.co/9KHUgQpQzs
There is a lot of myth-making about Starmer's leadership, much of it unchallenged.
It is hard to support the claim Starmer 'saved the Labour party' when he got 560,000 votes fewer than Corbyn in 2019.
2024 was a Tory collapse, not a Labour surge.
(via HoC Library).
One of the Greatest LFC photos. New York City, 1964. LFC on tour as Champions. Just four Liverpool footballers looking as-cool-as-you-like in the Big Apple. A'Court, Callaghan, Moran & Byrne taking in the sights. #YNWA#LiverpoolFC#cool#NewYork#LFC#style
In 2015, Jeremy Corbyn became the democratically elected and legitimate leader of the Labour Party, beating Andy Burnham in the process. He received no packed, jubilant Westminster Hall welcome like Burnham received today. The Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour bureaucracy immediately decided he wasn’t the leader they wanted and set out to undermine him at every turn. Today, Andy Burnham arrived at Westminster and was greeted euphorically en masse by the PLP despite not even having contested a leadership election. The Parliamentary Labour Party was in 2015 and still is a law unto itself. Democracy is an unpalatable inconvenience for these MPs. They serve themselves and their donors first and foremost. They’ve turned Westminster politics into a poorly acted, banal soap opera. An exclusive club certainly.
@UKLabour@AndyBurnhamGM@jeremycorbyn@GaryGibbonC4@SophyRidgeSky@BethRigby@PippaCrerar@Peston@Channel4News
Our 2026 UK October Tour in all its glory. ☁️🌍🏠
Presale is available tomorrow at 10am for album purchasers & mailing list subscribers.
General sale this Friday 10am.
keep cheap.
Race to the bottom.
Bank of England to water down capital rules for investment banks’ trading activities.
Safety buffers will be reduced.
Bailouts have eliminated bankruptcy risk for major banks.
More gambling and speculation, less safety inevitable.
https://t.co/k2jLM1cFUE