Goal then an ad break. Absolutely wank #worldcup

Ivory Coast becomes the FIRST team in this World Cup to win whilst having LESS Bird species than their opposition! 😲

Has your Nation ever lost 7-1 to Germany at the World Cup?

In Finland school meals are free for all children until the age of 16. In Japan, only qualified nutritionists are allowed to prepare and serve school meals. Meanwhile in the UK, we’re arguing about whether kids deserve to be fed at all. FREE school meals for all children!

FML

I have no words. And no voice. Unbelievable #utg

It’s because of readers like Mike Flint that @thetimes has the greatest letters page in the world 🤣

There's Steve McQueen cool and then there's Sid James on a Raleigh Chopper cool.

Nigel Farage trying to avoid blame for supporting Trumpflation.

I think that the biggest difference between the Iran war and the Vietnam war is Donald Trump knew how to get himself out of the Vietnam war.

Before I was an MP, I worked on the current series of polymer banknotes at the Bank of England. So I know how decisions about our currency are made, and why they matter. Nigel Farage clearly doesn’t. What he conveniently ignores is that central banks regularly issue new banknote series. It’s how they stay ahead of counterfeiters and keep our currency secure. It’s technical. It’s essential. And it’s completely routine. So why is he manufacturing outrage? Because Farage and Reform UK have spent months attacking the Bank of England itself. They’ve demanded the Bank halt quantitative tightening. 💷 They’ve pushed to stop interest being paid on central bank reserves, which would completely destroy monetary policy transmission. ⚠️ And Farage has even suggested replacing the Governor with someone aligned to his agenda. Let’s be clear: Politicians leaning on central banks is how you spook markets and undermine confidence in the economy. Bank of England independence, brought in by the last Labour government, exists for a reason. To keep markets and household finances stable. I back the Bank to keep our currency secure, not to be dragged into political point-scoring. So if Farage spent half as much time understanding how the Bank works as he does attacking it, we’d hear a lot less of this nonsense. ❌

On Iran, the FT gets it.

Democracy Volunteers also observed 1% of family voting in the Runcorn by election. That's roughly 300 votes - Reform won by 6 Funnily enough, Farridge was silent

Farage is a MAGA (Heritage Foubdation) controlled puppet. This is exactly why Reform so not have ideas of their own, - from being the forever victim, to useless DOGE, to ICE fantasy - all comes form one place

Blimey…👀

I'm a Hacker. I attend DEF CON every year. We play a fun game called "Spot the Fed". Last week, the Department of Justice released three million pages of Epstein documents. I read them professionally. Not for the names. For the tradecraft. The tradecraft is immaculate. But here's what made me put down my coffee. An FBI informant told authorities in 2017 that Epstein had a "personal hacker." An Italian. Born in the southern region of Calabria. I've met hackers from Calabria. At DEF CON. At Black Hat. The informant said this hacker developed zero-day exploits. For iOS. For BlackBerry. For Firefox. The informant said this hacker sold the exploits to the United States. To the United Kingdom. To an unnamed central African government. And to Hezbollah. Hezbollah paid with "a trunk of cash." That's not how the US government pays. The US government uses purchase orders. But the exploits were the same. Same zero-days. Different payment methods. Different clients. Same hacker. Speaking of hackers in Epstein's emails. If you've been to Black Hat, you know the name. He's on the Black Hat conference board. He co-founded Trail of Bits. He co-wrote the iOS Hacker's Handbook. On April 14, 2018, the hackersent an email. To jeevacation@gmail.com. That's Epstein's personal email address. Subject line: "New Yorker." Document reference: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033280. I don't know what was in the email. The email exists. In the files. In the congressional oversight documents. I've been to Black Hat with the hacker in question. Not personally. In the same room. Watching the same talks. About zero-days. About offensive security. About "responsible disclosure." Epstein had a personal hacker selling zero-days to governments and Hezbollah. Epstein was in contact with a Black Hat board member. Epstein funded MIT Media Lab. Where they research AI. And security. And "the future." I don't know what this means. I know what it looks like. It looks like my industry. But there's more. US security officials say Epstein ran "the world's largest honeytrap operation." For Russian intelligence. The KGB. The documents mention Putin 1,056 times. Moscow 9,629 times. An email from September 2011: "You had an appointment with Putin on September 16th." Scheduled like a dentist visit. Security sources say a Russian oil tycoon introduced Epstein to the Maxwells. Robert Maxwell. Ghislaine's father. Called "Israel's Superspy." Alleged KGB. Alleged Mossad. Alleged MI6. Three agencies. One family. Plus a personal hacker. Plus a network of security researchers. Plus MIT. Plus zero-days sold to multiple governments and terrorist organizations. At DEF CON, we have a saying. "Spot the fed." It's a game. You try to identify the government agents in the crowd. It's funny. Until it isn't. Until you realize the game goes both ways. They're spotting you too. And taking notes. And building networks. And buying exploits. Epstein wasn't just an intelligence asset. He was an intelligence infrastructure. A platform. Multi-tenant. Multi-cloud. Russia. Israel. US. UK. Hezbollah. Everyone got access. Everyone paid differently. Same exploits. Same kompromat. Same network. Different clients. The question everyone asks: Was Epstein an intelligence asset? That's the wrong question. The right question: Was the entire security research community compromised? The answer is in the files. Three million pages. We just haven't read them all yet. Was the entire security research community compromised? Anyway, see you at DEF CON!

I believe we will soon learn and history will record that the Trump presidency itself was a Russian/Putin/FSB intelligence operation with Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon and others serving Russian interests.