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FIFA says it and Qatar and a bunch of UN bodies have launched a $50m World Cup legacy fund. It will be used to fund a bunch of things. Details attached. What it won’t be for, is to pay remedies for workers or their dependents killed or injured building the W. Cup. Perhaps that is still to come.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

I for one am amazed that Keir Starmer, five months after winning a 170 seat majority, has not called a fresh election after acceding to a random petition. Shameful stuff. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-s...

submitted 98 days ago • 283 comments

Is this a safe space to say I have no time for Fabrizio Romano for a whole host of reasons, one being he comes across as a PR agent for various unsavoury players/clubs more than anything else these days?

submitted 98 days ago • 102 comments

“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?” The results were hilarious. Trans: 21% Muslim: 27% Jewish: 30% Black: 41% Live in NYC: 30% Gay or lesbian: 30% The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.” www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

submitted 100 days ago • 232 comments

Premier League continuing to fly away from the competition. TV and commercial agreements for the three year cycle 25/26-27/28 up 17 percent to £12.25bn. Time when European leagues like Italy and France in trouble

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Woman who accused Irish martial arts fighter Conor McGregor of raping her in 2018 wins claim for damages in civil case

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

Manchester City have done something right to keep Guardiola so long. Just four seasons at Barcelona, the team of his heart, and three at Bayern. But will be ELEVEN at Man City if he sees out his contract. The romance of the project must be what has kept him there so long.

submitted 102 days ago • 21 comments

Gavin & Stacey is 90 minutes and will air on Christmas Day. The new Wallace & Gromit is 79 minutes long and will *also* air on Christmas Day. A big day in front of the television.

submitted 102 days ago • 13 comments

He’s doing it right in front of the cameras…

submitted 103 days ago • 180 comments

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

submitted 103 days ago • 1047 comments

Anybody who says ‘I’m not a conspiracy perdon’ or ‘I’m very skeptical about conspiracies’ is almost invariably about to promote a conspiracy theory and illustrate that they are in fact rather credulous.

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

at public notice, wrote about RFK, who is a massive threat to public health in the US. people like Polis apologizing for him should be ashamed of themselves. www.publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-pub...

submitted 104 days ago • 24 comments

This is precisely why 'apolitical' people are so dangerous. It becomes an exercise in personal convenience. If it's convenient for them to celebrate immigrants, they will. If it's convenient for them to demonise immigrants & weaponise hatred, they'll just as happily align with xenophobic ideologues

submitted 104 days ago • 27 comments

‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the Severn river?

submitted 104 days ago • 10 comments

Amerexit: Oligarchy Comes to the United States Peter Jukes's editorial from the December Print Edition of Byline Times https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/16/amerexit-oligarchy-comes-to-the-united-states/

submitted 107 days ago • 15 comments

I think that gets me most about these growing numbers of violent fascists I see every day in Berlin is - there’s nothing existential at stake for them. This rage they’ve whipped up about the white race being replaced - it’s all a delusion they got angry about online. And we have to suffer for it.

submitted 105 days ago • 4 comments

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