Ben Blake

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Oh, this is so sad. There's always been Star Trek, all my life, and the actors who made it are being lost one by one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jeesh, it gets worse, doesn't it? Make Google replant the whole lot. These mega-corporations and billionaires think the law doesn't matter.

Scrap it now.

That's right. America wants to burn the world; why should Europe pay the cost?

Me too, my friend.

Well, you'd expect it to, wouldn't you? Man C didn't suddenly stop cheating in 2018. If the guilty verdict is upheld, as expected, then the Prem should investigate the period from 2018-2026 too, and if they find more cheating, impose a further punishment.

Joshua will win that, then. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...

Right, so what the UAE says is, let us cheat or we'll blackmail you? Not really the good guys, are ya?

Don't care. This is blackmail right out in the open. I never react well to that, and neither should the UK. Kick Man City out.

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Me too.

The Premier League have to take the nuclear option and expel them. Everything they've achieved is based on huge financial fraud.

Man City HAVE to be expelled from the Premier League. HAVE to be. 15 years ago these cheats beat Stoke City 1-0 in the FA Cup final. Stoke fans never got to see their side life the trophy. The MCI board is full of dishonest, corrupt b*st*rds.

No brainer really.

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Good question. Expulsion from the EPL should be a serious option. We already know the EFL doesn't want them either, and there's the point - all of English football is so disgusted by this brazen, repeated cheating, that they want nothing to do with MCI anymore.

A legal suit on Sky Sports just said: "Man City retained an army of some of the best lawyers in the world, who allegedly obstructed this process from start to finish. Yet they have seemingly been found comprehensively guilty. They can kick & scream, but there's very little scope for manoeuvre now."

Not enough love that on the timeline for the man who leaked the Man City breaches. Thank you Rui Pinto. Respect.

If true, MANC need to be punished severely - to stop Newcastle, Villa, soon Liverpool, and other super-rich clubs from cheating as well. A trivial fine will tell them it's worth the risk. MANC should be hurt by the punishment, and badly. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Israel has been found guilty today in Geneva of war crimes including extermination, forcible transfer, starvation, torture and false imprisonment, sexual violence including rape... and many more If it was any other country than Israel all of Europe would boycott them. Instead there will be silence

When he banned CNN et al, I said that the wider press either walked out, or they would be colluding. Guess they made their choice.

Truth in this.

We really have to stop this. If it means state funding for political parties then that's fine with me; otherwise, the system is wide open to being bought. I do not wish to end up like America.

All true. And more: America has driven herself to the edge of bankruptcy with a series of pointless wars, alienated her allies, and abandoned most of her bases in the Middle East. It is exactly what bin Laden must have hoped for - to make America break herself.

And all those funds have been wasted. Afghanistan is still run by the Taliban, Libya and Iraq are sectarian messes where extremism breeds, and Iran is more powerful than ever.

Ed Miliband said what Israel is doing in the West is Ethnic Cleansing, which is armed, supported and protected by the Government of Israel. Why is it Israel not being sanctioned?

So much this.

Time to double it, I'd say. Oh, and tax the billionaires to pay for it.

Me too. Leave me.

Insanity. What are we doing?

Beavers are fantastically important, they reduce flooding, reduce drought, and improve biodiversity. What's not to love?

It isn't just risking public health in America. Europe doesn't want tens of thousands of unvaccinated asshats turning up every summer to say "Ain't that quaint" and infect the shit out of us. Thank you, no.

Irrelevant. UEFA supplies 60% of FIFA's money; without it, FIFA can't afford these schemes. If UEFA, CONCACAF, and AFC all quit, FIFA will go bust inside a year. And the African nations know it, so in a schism, they'll have to abandon FIFA too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Only affects bacteria, eh? Well. Not worrying at all then. Um... until someone somewhere decides it'd be great to design a virus that targets a DNA chain found only in West Africans, or Jewish people, or Nordics. Quite a lot more worrying then. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This comment by FIFA effectively says for its critics, i.e. UEFA, to shut up or be punished. I doubt UEFA will shut up. This World Cup was the first my 10-year-old daughter followed; now a schism looks likely, it may be her last.

Exactly this! Please, Dems, don't go chuck it in the bin - again! - because your nominee isn't the one you preferred. You're fighting fascists here.

Fully agree, Infantino is toast. He can't back down and survive, but if he tries to stay he knows all of UEFA and CONCACAF will be against him. That's 96 countries right there, close to the FIFA majority of 106. Hope he gets his arse kicked way the hell out.

There is no longer any choice. We have to see a full UEFA withdrawal from FIFA. Private investment has absolutely no place in an organising body which has a moral duty to both remain neutral and be fully accountable. Infantino is a blight on the game and completely unfit for the role.

Exactly. Corrupt under Blatter, corrupt under Infantino. UEFA is rumoured to be considering a boycott of FIFA events, and it's about time. The world body exists to organise world cups and a few other things, not to enrich a few individuals. Time for a new beginning.

At least it will be out before Tesla self-driving cars that actually work.

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

So, it seems Trump has now managed to pit FIFA and UEFA against each other, and possibly wreck world football. Everything he touches dies. #trump #kissofdeath #FIFA #UEFA #football #worldcup

SCOTUS refused to hear E. Jean Carroll. So it’s official: he is a predator.

Wow. Incredible. As a fantasy writer, I immediately wonder how they lived. Who their gods were, how they buried their dead, what their customs were for marriage or leadership. But they used fire, 400,000 years ago. It's astonishing. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/29/s...

Er, how does a criminal make algae?

Still growing then, eh?

But the war is over, right?

It's actually the same mistake, four times. America builds its military according to the Douhet Doctrine - that air power alone can win wars. It's been proven wrong again and again, but never mind, Washington keeps believing that this time will be different...

Of course it did, IT'S AN ELEPHANT!!