🚨 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?

The MoD felt the need to deny the tanker raid was staged. Ask yourself why. Because in the same breath they accidentally confirmed everything people were saying Their own spokesman admitted footage was taken at multiple points and compiled together. Different takes. Edited into one seamless video. A voice can be heard saying ROLLING. And telling a soldier to HOLD THAT during a live search of the vessel. Those are not military commands. Those are film production commands. And the MoD just told us that themselves. The policy to seize shadow fleet ships was announced in MARCH. Three months. Not one tanker touched. The Smyrtos sailed from the Russian oil terminal Ust-Luga on June 4. They tracked it for ten days as it crossed the North Sea and entered the Channel. They did not stumble upon this ship on the night of June 14. They chose the night before the G7 to act. That is not a military decision. That is a scheduling decision. World leaders arriving the next morning specifically to discuss standing up to Russia. Starmer needed something to walk into that room with. 3am operation. Tweet before breakfast. Video uploaded before the world woke up. The man Trump publicly called not Winston Churchill needed to walk into the G7 looking like one. So he produced a film the night before the G7 to prove he is still relevant. As DPP he volunteered to go after British soldiers. Did not have to. Was not asked to. Chose it. For free. Here’s is what makes this truly obscene. The man now wrapping himself in the Armed Forces spent years pursuing British soldiers through the courts. Nobody asked him. Nobody paid him. He chose to prosecute them. Worked for free to do it. That is not a lawyer doing his job. That is a man with an agenda. Armed Forces shrinking by 300 a month. Lowest since the Napoleonic Wars. Eleven days before this three Royal Marines were killed when a Merlin Mk4 crashed in Devon. Same aircraft. Investigation open. Not grounded. Used anyway. Chris Gayson. Lily-Mae Fisher. Owen Green. Lily-Mae never got her wings. They were due this month. He spent years trying to destroy soldiers like them. Then used what is left of them to save himself. Our soldiers deserved better than being props in his political survival film.

🚨🗣️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.”

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council), As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display. I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal. Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated. They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive. Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure. Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation. If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice. I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason. What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated. I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this: Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering. Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating. For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media. Yours sincerely, Janet Murray

Have you completely lost all faith and trust in the UK Police? YES OR NO?

UK police are now lashing out against indigenous British people, with videos showing officers assaulting already-detained British men and manhandling five-year-old children in ways they never treat foreigners.

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban [@thetimes]

🚨 Can you see we are being played? Labour BLOCKED age verification for illegal migrants claiming to be children. Yet now wants British citizens to verify their age to prove they’re not children. Oh …

🚨NEW: Bluesky will not be included in the under-16s social media ban

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban [@thetimes]

UK is starting to love Sir Keir. I don't know but something seems to be changing in the media. Apart from the predictable hostility from GB News and Nick Ferrari on LBC, parts of the press finally appear to be moving towards something dangerously radical: Judging Keir Starmer on what he actually does. Not every difficult week is now automatically being presented as a political funeral. Not every disagreement is being treated as the collapse of government. Not every Labour setback is being turned into another breathless “Starmer is finished” headline before breakfast. Some journalists are beginning to acknowledge the seriousness, discipline and stability he brings after years of Conservative chaos. I would not say the media loves him yet. That may be asking for a miracle. But a little fairness, context and neutrality would already feel like a revolution. And perhaps, slowly, some of them are beginning to realise that quiet government is not the same as weak government. Sometimes it is simply government getting on with the job. #LessNoiseMoreDelivery

🚨NEW: Social media app BlueSky, is absolutely FULL of accounts that claim to be a “minor attracted person” In other words, they are PROUDLY calling themselves a pedophile. BlueSky was also conveniently left off of Starmer’s under 16s social media ban list…… H/T: @Inevitablewest

Kate Middleton looking angry and the kids looking completely uncomfortable and confused, getting booed during trooping the colour. If looks could kill. Princess Kate didn't like that.

People are getting their heads cut off in the streets and this clown thinks the British people care about an oil tanker? I honestly cannot believe he is still Prime Minister.