Dan Smith

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨EXC with @lara_spirit & @domhauschild

Govt to slash NHS capital budget by £580m as part of cross Govt plan to pay for the defence investment plan...

Meanwhile there are hospitals with roofs being propped up and a £16bn maintenance backlog:
https://t.co/dGZsBvrb1O

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

It's not to late to move the LA Olympics to a country that has the capacity to hold them.

[Dan Smith @Dan1763]

@RepDonBacon @lauferlaw Why is it even Pentagon decision. Private arms manufacturer offers to sell at a fair price. State Dept manages issues of who to sell to.

[Jonathan Ridgway @AVFCJono]

What a disgraceful country. Not fit to host any international tournament.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

West Ham knew about the “allegations” for years. It's pretty disgusting that it's only when they're about to become public that the club takes action.

[Dave Holmes @DaveHo1mes]

If this continues there has to be some form of organised protest by the other nations, a boycott isn’t realistic but it would only take the teams refusing to participate in any FIFA media events, or the nonsense that they have planned for prematch to send a message that this is unacceptable.

When you host the World Cup you invite the rest of the world to your country, denying visas for players and coaches should be disqualifying for any host nation, starting a war should have been a pretty big issue as well, but what should we expect from the FIFA Peace Prize winner and his puppet Infantino…

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

I honestly wonder who thought it was a good idea, on the anniversary of D-Day, to have a speech in which the Secretary's own ideology is set in metaphorical parallel to the Nazis opposing the beaches being stormed on D-Day.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

Now David Sullivan's anonymity order is nullified, please make sure to amplify and ask why @WestHam's safeguarding team took no action when made aware of multiple allegations of RAPE and CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.

3 years they've sat on their hands too scared to act.

[Dan Smith @Dan1763]

@DeanBaker13 Exactly it’s too late for World Cup to be anything other than chaos, but Olympics could be moved

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

US border force interrogated top Iraqi World Cup striker Aymen Hussein for over seven hours at Chicago Airport according to sources.

Wow...

[Dan Smith @Dan1763]

@Microbedoc2 And when they started in late 90’s early 2000’s national debt was enormously lower than it is now post Banking crisis and pandemic. It was always a mistaken priority

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

David Tennat, "Did you see Robert Kenyon's remarks on the BBC?"

Chloe Petts, "He had to say: I've not made sexual remarks about Carol Vordenman"

"Which I think is like if you put Bill Clinton's I did not have sexual relations with AI, and said, make it British"

[Dan Smith @Dan1763]

@tparsi and they have blocked visas for the manager, multiple backroom staff and ALL Iranian journalists.

[Dan Smith @Dan1763]

@ziplamak Probably yes, but unlikely to make a difference in time.

Fines for the organising committee or FIFA in 2027 will not make much difference.

We will have this all over again in 2028 Olympics

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

Disgraceful behavior by the host country. Between harassing an Iraqi player at customs and denying the Iranian manager a visa to attend matches with his team, it brings shame to the U.S., not security.

If the US can't or won't fulfill it obligations in hosting the World Cup, it should never have bid to be considered.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

"There are many cases: Iranian colleagues, African colleagues, some of whom have been given single entries, so if their team goes to play in Canada or Mexico and they follow it, they can no longer return to the States.

The cases are countless and, I repeat, unacceptable. Politicians always say that sport unites and builds bridges between young people in countries in conflict, but in this case, we are going in the opposite direction."

[Team Melli Analysis ⚽️🇮🇷 @TmMelliAnalysis]

⚽️🇮🇷Shameful from USA and FIFA, someone like Mehrpouya Asadi who is one of the analysts of Team Melli had a similar role in Aluminium prior to joining TM. He has been with the team since the Asian Cup. His long track record in the PGPL should have alleviated all cause for concern

[Niang 🏴‍☠️ @kadeer96]

Quand c’était le Qatar ça l’ouvrait beaucoup , on est sur le scandale du siècle personne n’en parle

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

What does it say about you if you look at this infant and see a threat that must be eliminated?

And what does it say about the values of the countries that defend and enable these murders?

This is the 7-month-old Palestinian baby shot & killed by an Israeli soldier yesterday.

[Casey Telford @CaseyToGo]

One less photographer will be covering the World Cup.

Official Iraq National Team photographer Talal Salah was detained for 12 hours in Chicago then denied entry.

#FIFAWorldCup