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"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".

New one keeps saying things I agree with, and sounds as if it means them. Definitely AI!

It’s very clever at disguising itself though. Very few people have realised that our last five Prime Ministers have all been AI robots. (Jury’s still hearing the evidence about the new one).

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Since he mentions Iran, let’s point out that the ‘haters’ massively disadvantaged Iran by forcing them to fly immediately before their matches. It was Infantino’s job to sort this out and get fair treatment for them. He didn’t even try.

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Brings back memories. I used one of those (probably not so ornate) for a month when I had a college-holiday job in 1976

The Burnham chapter begins. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog assessing Burnham and Burnhamism, plus Farage’s fortunes, and the rancid reactions to the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe. Long, last post of the summer: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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It’s The Times. Once a quality newspaper, now extreme right-wing trash, with all the moral authority of Donald Trump.

Refereeing at this World Cup is like a throwback to 1970’s & 80’s, when skill was negated by violence. This favours the most cynical teams. It’s been going on long enough that it is clearly deliberate policy.

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None of us are immortal. There js a right time for each of us to go, and it sounds like it was time for your dad. To live too long is to suffer, and make those around you suffer too. You will miss him of course, but you should celebrate the life rather than mourn its ending.

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Starmer almost seems to have a split personality. Rightly helped Ukrainians resist foreign invasion. But supporting foreign invasion of Palestine - and a particularly barbaric one at that.

Reform just playing for publicity, they know they won’t get this amendment through. It’s aimed at their English base, they calculate they’ll gain more votes from English racists than they lose in the other countries.

If Palantir is truly essential (which I doubt), then it should be nationalised immediately. At present, it is controlled from a foreign state whose interests are not aligned with Britain’s.

A very cynical view of the man he sold the club to - possibly not wrong though?