Bridget Brooks

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"EXCLUSIVE: Feargal Sharkey urges ministers to 'seize' Thames Water as nationalisation looms."

It's time to end it and that time is now.

https://t.co/SeAK3ZgN7O

[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

Join the "One Million Voices for the Free of Hussam Abu Safieh" campaign.

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[David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎 @eggsbened]

Nightmare for a friend of mine.
Please share.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Michelle Obama!

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Meanwhile, the heroic doctor's torture by Israel continues. They continue to torture Dr. Hussam Abu Sefia for the crime of not abandoning his patients. Without laying charges, offering him anything resembling due process, Israel is killing him slowly. One day, everyone will say they were against this

[CATERINA😇 @Caterin49788702]

En unas impactantes imágenes que se han vuelto virales, un estudiante judío evocó la memoria del Holocausto y las enseñanzas transmitidas por su abuela para cuestionar el uso del trauma judío como justificación del genocidio en curso en Gaza.
Mientras el estudiante confrontaba la visita de un soldado de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI), enfatizó que la frase "Nunca Más" es un mandato universal y no un eslogan exclusivo de un grupo.

“Mi abuela judía me habló sobre el Holocausto... me dijo: ‘Nunca más’. Esto no es ‘Nunca más’. ‘Nunca más’ significa nunca más para nadie.”

Además de hacer comentarios que, según él, desmontan la propaganda que equipara los crímenes de guerra israelíes con la seguridad del pueblo judío, el estudiante también describió la dura realidad de la campaña militar de las FDI: más de 70.000 palestinos muertos, más de 300 periodistas y más de 1.700 trabajadores sanitarios fallecidos, además de niños que han sido atacados.

El estudiante también mencionó el conmovedor caso de Hind Rajab, una niña de 6 años cuyo automóvil, según afirmó, fue perforado por 335 balas disparadas por tanques israelíes.

La protesta terminó con una clara exigencia de rendición de cuentas internacional: “Si la justicia es real, ustedes serán procesados en La Haya”.

A medida que más jóvenes judíos alzan la voz contra la ocupación, la narrativa de que Israel habla en nombre de todo el pueblo judío sigue debilitándose.

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

Gaza has been a major factor behind voters leaving our party.

In one recent poll, 53% of former Labour voters said it was a decisive factor.

Why is this government willing to expend so much political capital to ensure weapons companies can keep arming Israel?

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Hussam Ebu Safieh, "İsrail'in rehineler için ölüm cezası" ile öldürülecek olan Filistinli doktorlardan biridir (diğer 95 doktor arasında).

Onu öldürmelerine izin verme.
Bunu yeniden yayınlayın.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Parliament should reverse the decision to proscribe Palestine Action urgently before we see large numbers of elderly people in particular being dragged before our courts. Classifying protest through direct action as terrorism brings Parliament & our judicial system into disrepute

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist.

At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[Kevin A @kca0027]

- Ad breaks disguised as hydration breaks.
- Players waiting for music to stop to restart match.
- Atrocious/suspicious officiating.
- Visa’s preventing fans entry into the US.
- Overpriced tickets/travel.
- Not allowing interviews in Spanish.

An embarrassment of a World Cup.

[Deep philosophy @DeepPhilo_HQ]

"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize."

- Voltaire

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

Me están matando (por decirlo educadamente) las pausas de hidratación en esta Copa del Mundo. Rompen el ritmo. Parten el partido. Cambian dinámicas positivas y negativas de los equipos. Esto no es fútbol y nunca lo será por más que terminemos acostumbrándonos.

[Bartolo @BartoloOpina]

Lo que acaba de pasar con la pausa de hidratación después del gol de Curazao es exactamente el motivo por el que estoy tan en contra.

Alemania había quedado tocada, Curazao se le venía arriba a puro envión anímico y, de golpe, te frenan el partido, enfrían todo y lo reinician como si nada.

El fútbol no se juega en cuatro cuartos. Esto no es la NBA, la NFL ni uno de esos deportes yankees armados alrededor de las interrupciones.

Dejen de alterar el deporte más popular de la historia.

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Today marks 9 years since the Grenfell Tower fire.

But 9 years on, there is still no justice.

9 years on & people still live in unsafe buildings.

We must not forget those killed because of dishonesty and corporate greed.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 VINI JR JUST TOLD FIFA: “WE’LL PAY THE FINE — BUT NOBODY FROM US IS DOING HALF-TIME INTERVIEWS.”

During Brazil’s World Cup match, Vinícius refused the mandatory tunnel interview.

Reporter: “You’ll get a huge fine for this.”

Vini: “We’ll pay. But nobody is coming to the mic.”

This isn’t arrogance. It’s players finally saying enough to FIFA’s corporate circus.

Half-time should be for tactics, water, recovery — not feeding the broadcast machine while the game gets sliced up for ads (sound familiar with those forced “welfare” breaks?).

FIFA under Infantino has turned football into a product. Mandatory everything. Player focus as an afterthought. Suits in Zurich cashing in.

Brazil and Vini just pushed back. Raw. Direct. No bowing to the machine.

The beautiful game belongs to the players on the pitch — not boardrooms selling every second.

Who else is done with this?

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the Brazil, Morocco, and Netherlands press conferences, where questions in Spanish were reportedly not permitted for Hakimi, Vinícius Jr., and Frenkie de Jong:

“I have covered World Cups for years, and this situation makes absolutely no sense to me. You’re telling me a World Cup co-hosted by Mexico can stop journalists from asking questions in Spanish? That’s like hosting a Formula 1 race and banning cars from using their engines.

We saw it with Hakimi. We saw it with Vinícius. Now we’re hearing similar stories involving Frenkie de Jong. The players understood the questions. The journalists spoke one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. Yet somehow the language became the problem.

Gianni Infantino talks about inclusion, diversity, and bringing football to everyone. Fine. Then explain this contradiction. How can FIFA celebrate diversity in every promotional video and then create headlines because Spanish journalists are being told to switch languages at a tournament hosted by Mexico?

Spanish isn’t some obscure dialect spoken by a handful of people. It’s the language of hundreds of millions across the Americas and beyond. If a journalist from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, or anywhere else asks a question in Spanish and the player understands it, why is football creating barriers where none existed?

The irony is unbelievable. FIFA keeps telling us football belongs to everyone, but this controversy has many fans asking whether some voices are more welcome than others.

Maybe there’s a logistical explanation. Maybe it’s a translation issue. But perception matters. And right now the perception is terrible.

Because what fans are seeing is simple: a World Cup hosted partly by a Spanish-speaking nation, players who understand Spanish, journalists who speak Spanish, and officials telling them not to use Spanish.

If that’s progress, somebody needs to explain it better. Because from the outside, it looks like football’s governing body is tripping over its own message.”

“FIFA wanted a celebration of diversity. Instead, they’ve handed the internet a controversy that won’t stop being discussed.”