Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.
Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.
Leave him to me.
FIFA’s broadcast cameras appeared to avoid showing this moment, likely due to rules around political gestures and protests.
But today, Lumumba covered his mouth and mimed a gun to his head in a powerful protest against the silence surrounding the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
One of the world’s most active crises has displaced thousands, and he used the World Cup stage to make sure people could not look away.
This is what true influence looks like. 🇨🇩👏
🚨🤯 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Everything that has happened in the last few days, prior to the start of the World Cup:
• Switzerland's Embolo had visa issues and could only join the team days later.
• Iraq striker Aymen Hussein was questioned for almost 7 hours after arriving in the United States.
• Iran spent days dealing with visa problems before the World Cup. Fifteen members of their delegation were denied visas.
• CAF's 2025 African Referee of the Year, Omar Artan, was denied entry to the U.S. and sent back home. FIFA confirmed he would miss the tournament.
• South Africa arrived much later than planned because some members of the delegation could not get visas.
• Senegal staff members were subjected to long searches and forced to remove their shoes, leading to accusations of racism.
• Uzbekistan's team was searched with bomb-sniffing dogs, with videos spreading around the world.
• Some Scotland fans had their ESTA travel authorisations cancelled just days before departure.
• Many fans who had already bought tickets and booked hotels had their visa applications rejected, losing large amounts of money.
Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.
Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.
Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.
This had no coverage....
No cobra meetings, no round the clock speeches.
If our government won't address ALL racist violence in the UK, they will sow further division.
And I think this is what they want.
Mesut Özil confirms Arsenal closed the door on him after he posted about the Uygur genocide to his social media.
Some things are bigger than football ❤️
BREAKING
Israel is blowing up entire civilian homes in Aadshit al-Qusayr, South Lebanon right now — during a ceasefire.
Civilian homes.
No justification.
Just deliberate terror and destruction to ensure civilians have nothing left to return to.
A war crime in broad daylight.
Israel killed two UNICEF drivers trying to get WATER to families in Gaza. Is this story going to get any coverage?
Or is the ongoing genocide not newsworthy?