As an Arsenal fan, I have always enjoyed our historic rivalry with Manchester Utd.
Above all, I admire its identity as a diverse club with players & fans from all over the world.
Jim Ratcliffe’s comments are a disgrace. Migrants aren’t the problem. Tax-dodging billionaires are.
Jim Ratcliffe attacks people on benefits when he has had £120 million in taxpayers' money.
He complains abour migrants, after moving to Monaco where 2/3rds of the population are immigrants.
Just another rich man blaming poor people and Black people.
No one should ever forget:
The partnership of Netanyahu 🇮🇱; Trump 🇺🇸 & Starmer 🇬🇧 did this
It’s apocalyptic
An evil, racist genocide
For the sake of humanity, all must be made to answer in The Hague
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra 120,000 NHS nurses.
It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires.
Remembrance is not a violation.
I met with Ukrainian skeleton racer and member of Ukraine’s National Olympic Team, Vladyslav Heraskevych, and his father, coach of Ukraine’s skeleton team, Mykhailo Heraskevych. I presented Vladyslav with the Order of Freedom.
Ukraine will always have champions and Olympians. But above all, Ukraine’s greatest asset is Ukrainians – those who cherish the truth and the memory of the athletes killed by Russia, athletes who will never compete again because of the Russian aggression.
Thank you for your stance, your strength, and your courage. Glory to Ukraine!
By cutting off all fuel to Cuba, Trump is sadistically starving the population into submission: hospitals closing, transport collapsing, severe food/medicine rationing. The US blockade is now a genocidal siege designed to kill Cubans. It must be stopped - solidarity & action NOW!
It was a democratic outrage that there was ever a ban on Palestine Action in the first place. The government, the Home secretary and the PM only bring themselves into further disrepute by pursuing an appeal.
Decency, the and opposition to genocide won.
Authoritarianism lost.
The Peter Mandelson scandal is what happens when a government abandons its moral compass.
Parliament needs to look itself in the mirror — and ask itself how it became embroiled in a web of lies, abuse and corruption.
My piece for The @Independent.
https://t.co/xnU0x4zEU8
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
We knew the proscription of Palestine Action was absurd and immoral. Now, we know it was unlawful too.
Today’s ruling is a vindication for all those who had the courage to oppose genocide — and a day of shame for those in our government who enabled it.
Our Government has now issued formal advice against "all but essential travel" to Cuba because of the situation caused by Trump’s blockade of fuel to the island.
Yet it still hasn't issued a statement opposing Trump's inhumane action.
Our Government must condemn this cruel act.
Sport shouldn’t mean amnesia, and the Olympic movement should help stop wars, not play into the hands of aggressors. Unfortunately, the decision of the International Olympic Committee to disqualify Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says otherwise. This is certainly not about the principles of Olympism, which are founded on fairness and the support of peace.
I thank our athlete for his clear stance. His helmet, bearing the portraits of fallen Ukrainian athletes, is about honour and remembrance. It is a reminder to the whole world of what Russian aggression is and the cost of fighting for independence. And in this, no rule has been broken.
It is Russia that constantly violates Olympic principles, using the period of the Olympic Games to wage war. In 2008, it was the war against Georgia; in 2014 – the occupation of Crimea; in 2022 – the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And now, in 2026, despite repeated calls for a ceasefire during the Winter Olympics, Russia shows complete disregard, increasing missile and drone strikes on our energy infrastructure and our people.
660 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have been killed by Russia since the full-scale invasion began. Hundreds of our athletes will never again be able to take part in the Olympic Games or any other international competitions. And yet, 13 Russians are currently in Italy competing at the Olympics. They compete under “neutral” flags at the Games, while in real life publicly supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of our territories. And they are the ones who deserve disqualification.
We are proud of Vladyslav and of what he did. Having courage is worth more than any medal.
A billionaire worth £17,000,000,000 who moved to Monaco to dodge £4,000,000,000 in tax is now blaming immigrants for Britain’s problems.
If parasitic billionaires like Jim Ratcliffe paid what they owe — and politicians weren’t in their pockets — our NHS, schools and public services wouldn’t be on their knees.
It is textbook divide and rule. The real enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.
Vladyslav Heraskevych disqualified.
Not even allowed to start.
But he has already won.
The world saw the names of Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia. And the hypocrisy of those who claim to stand for peace.
You can ban us from the track.
You cannot silence Ukraine.
With one small but powerful idea (& a brilliant PR strategy) Vladyslav Heraskevych has grabbed the Olympic family’s attention & asked it a difficult question: you say athletes come first, but what about these athletes? This is new IOC president Kirsty Coventry’s first big test.
Am I showing “conflict” on the helmet?
I’m showing athletes who died since last Winter Olympic Games .
By which details did he determine that the helmet is showing a conflict?
The whole world sees ‘memory’, but he sees a conflict?