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[LASMID @Lasmidofficial]

Happiest day of my life !!
Was an honor to meet you Godfather
@okomfourkwadee
Big Tnx to @Serwaa_Amihere
@valentinomcdona @realppblaq @kwadwosheldon and everyone that made this possible 🙏

[Anna Isaac @Annaisaac]

The Guardian has now been told by three sources that in March 2024 Nigel Farage told senior Reform insiders that if he were to resume leadership of the party, and run to be an MP, he would need to be compensated for the financial harm of giving up his City career to spend 20 years campaigning and standing for election again.

Insiders and donors were insistent that Farage needed to return and to take Reform into not only a 2024 general election but a 2029 one, too. He argued that would cost him £5m, the sources said.

No mention was made of security costs in the discussions about needing to replace lost earnings, sources said.

[Edwina Currie @Edwina_Currie]

The slight problem with close protection, of course, is that the police then keep a log of everywhere you go, and everyone you meet ..
Bit restricting, isn’t it?
Unless you’ve nothing to hide..
👇👇🇬🇧🇬🇧🤬🤬🤬

[Paul Johnson @paul__johnson]

From The Times

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Andy Burnham has just voted in favour of Shabana Mahmood's Immigration and Asylum Act, an Act opposed by 80 Labour MPs colleagues and slammed by refugee groups and Alf Dubs himself. It will make successful asylum seekers in this country more marginal and vulnerable. A pitiful capitulation to the moral panics of the far-right.

[gus @igus_ai]

ESTE TIPO USÓ CLAUDE PARA CONSTRUIR UN SISTEMA DE TRADING AUTOMATIZADO QUE GENERÓ 867$ DE LA NOCHE A LA MAÑANA

Todo empezó con un solo artículo sobre bots de Polymarket.

Claude Fable 5 lo leyó, seleccionó 7 repositorios de GitHub, los conectó en un pipeline funcional y desplegó el sistema de principio a fin.

A partir de ahí, todo funcionó de forma autónoma.

El sistema escaneó más de 412.000 operaciones, rastreó wallets de ballenas, detectó actividad de insiders y tomó decisiones en tiempo real.

Según él, cada pocos segundos analizaba datos, decidía si comprar, vender o pasar, y ejecutaba las operaciones automáticamente.

47 operaciones después, el sistema terminó la noche con 847 $ de ganancia, sin ninguna intervención manual.

El vídeo de abajo te enseña a replicar este sistema tu mismo paso a pas👇

[Rob Harris @RobHarris]

Breaking: Belgium FA says it will contest Balogun’s eligibility if he is selected to play against them tonight and says “this leaves all further actions open” after FIFA dismissed their appeal against the ban being lifted

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Belgian federation has released a new statement:

"After learning through media reports of FIFA’s decision to lift the automatic suspension of player Balogun, the RBFA sent a letter to FIFA requesting a copy of the decision, an explanation of the process that had been followed, and setting out its position regarding the applicable regulations."

"As its only response, FIFA sent a letter to the RBFA stating that it considered this correspondence to constitute an appeal, that a judge had been appointed, and that the RBFA had only a few hours to complete that appeal. No information whatsoever was provided by FIFA."

"All of this occurred while FIFA simultaneously refused to respond to the RBFA’s legitimate requests."

"Furthermore, during the match coordination meeting, FIFA deliberately removed the section concerning the automatic suspension of players from its presentation. This topic had nonetheless been part of all such meetings before each of the previous four matches. The RBFA questioned FIFA, both orally and in writing, about the reasons for this change, yet once again received no response."

"To be clear, as of this moment, the RBFA has still not received any decision or any explanation from FIFA regarding this matter. It therefore has no alternative but to challenge the player's eligibility for the upcoming match."

"Regardless of the sporting outcome of this match, the RBFA is deeply saddened by the course of events and will continue to fight in the coming hours, days and months in defence of the fundamental principles of ethics, fair competition, and the interests of football as a whole."

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

Membership list of FIFA's disciplinary committee which lifted Balogun's suspension - and of the appeal committee which will rule on Belgium's appeal (the USA chairman will have to recuse himself).

[Gotfred Akoto Boafo @eastsportsman]

I like it. More fire 🔥

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump

[Yannick Bolasie @YannickBolasie]

All I’ll say is if this was AFCON and they let a man play after he got a red card, the nonsense being said would be crazy

[Iron Boy @NYboateng]

One day, the world will know this man had beef with the former FA administration, not because of their "bad work" but because his nephew wasn't getting called into the Black Stars.

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

Andy Burnham should invite Corbyn to be part of his cabinet.

If he does not then we will know that his is a case of 'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.'

Corbyn inspired a nation to the point of terrifying its ruling class. He was not and was never unelectable in 2019. Instead, he was made unelectable.

Why?

Simply because he, Corbyn, refused to accept that the Palestinians are children of a lesser God abroad, and that poverty is a price worth paying for capitalism at home.

@andyburnham

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Andy Burnham knows, when he looks out at the media attending any press conference, that a huge chunk of them are paid to harm him, paid not to listen and whose bosses represent a circular firing squad out to undermine him.

This is the reality. This is why it makes sense, on a day like today, to let the speech flow through broadcast media unmitigated by ‘But is Ed going to ruin the economy by being Chancellor….’

[Roger @Roger89835988]

@GordonFielden Mason, and others of his ilk, just monkeys. Their faceless organ-grinders, and their unaccountable minders and funders the ones to be most concerned about.
In recent Commons Culture Media Sport Committee Patrick Young named the 6 billionaires who own or control most of our media.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

Chris, there are rare occasions when an author dismantles his own argument before the reader has progressed beyond the opening paragraphs. This is one of them.

You readily concede that much of your reporting over recent months rested upon anonymous briefings, unnamed sources, private conversations and opinions offered only on condition that they could never be subjected to public scrutiny. You then ask your audience to accept that such material provides an accurate account of events. With respect, that is not evidence in any meaningful sense. It is an interpretation of events, constructed from assertions that the reader has no means of testing, verifying or challenging.

No serious observer disputes that confidential sources have a legitimate place in political journalism. They always have, and they always will. But there is a profound distinction between using anonymous sources to illuminate established facts and using them to construct an entire political narrative over many months. The former is responsible journalism; the latter risks becoming an exercise in reinforcing assumptions until they acquire the appearance of fact simply through constant repetition.

Indeed, your own article inadvertently exposes that very process. It repeatedly invites readers to accept what unnamed MPs supposedly believed, what unidentified advisers were allegedly saying, and what anonymous insiders privately thought. Such accounts may well have reflected genuine conversations, but they remain assertions rather than verifiable facts. There is an important distinction, and one that ought never to be blurred.

More striking still is the omission at the heart of your analysis. You devote thousands of words to explaining how Westminster concluded that Sir Keir Starmer's premiership had become untenable, yet you devote scarcely a sentence to examining whether the relentless stream of anonymous briefings and speculative commentary from sections of the political media played any part in creating that very outcome. That question surely deserves examination.

Nor do you grapple with the constitutional consequence of what follows. The British people elected a Government led by Sir Keir Starmer. Should he be replaced by another individual through internal parliamentary manoeuvring alone, the process may be constitutionally lawful, but that does not automatically confer political legitimacy in the eyes of the electorate. Those are two entirely different questions.

Many of those now defending such a transition were previously among the most vocal critics of Rishi Sunak for assuming office without seeking his own mandate from the country. Constitutional principles cannot be invoked when politically convenient and quietly abandoned when they become inconvenient.

History has a habit of punishing such inconsistency. If Andy Burnham were to become Prime Minister in these circumstances, I believe the pressure upon him to seek his own mandate from the British people would become irresistible. In my view, he would have little practical choice but to call a General Election within six to eight months. Whether Labour would survive such a contest is, of course, for the electorate to determine. My own judgement is that they would face a severe electoral reckoning, with the country returning either a Reform UK-led government or a hung Parliament.

Journalism should chronicle events, not become so intertwined with Westminster's internal conversations that it begins to mistake the mood of the political class for the settled will of the British people. That, in my view, is the fundamental weakness running through your analysis.

https://t.co/8vSBlsVlze

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A Tory source predicts Nigel Farage will soon quit as Reform leader over the Makerfield by-election

"We are watching the slow puncture of the Reform balloon. They had a 10 point lead over Labour in the polls and won every seat in Makerfield at the locals but, as they have at the last three by-elections, Reform have lost yet again. Farage is ducking press conferences to avoid answering questions about his £5m crypto bung. Yusuf is too chicken to stand as a candidate.

"It’s now surely only a matter of time before tired Nigel picks up his ball and goes home, leaving a bunch of hopeless nobodies to squabble over the remains of a turquoise travesty"

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Robert Peston @Peston]

America’s World Cup hero of last night, Folarin Balogun, is only allowed to play for the US national team because his heavily pregnant Nigerian mother was refused permission by US airlines to fly to the UK, and so the first two months of his life were - by accident - in Brooklyn. It is pretty much inconceivable that if Trump’s immigration enforcement had been in place that Balogun would have been permitted to be born in America. Draw your own conclusions