David Squires

David Squires

@davidsquires.bsky.social

Illustrator, cartoonist, five-a-side gun for hire.

23.6K followers396 following515 posts

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The Cathy Wilcox
@cathywilcox.bsky.social

Thanks @crikey.com.au for publishing this great, but sobering, piece by Jason Chatfield.

Crikey@crikey.com.au

Opinion | Political cartoonists are a dying breed, with publications slowly waiting for them to leave before bricking up the door behind them, writes New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/c...

crikey.com.auWe cartoonists are a dying breed. It's a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracyAs New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…

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Philippe Auclair
@philippeauclair.bsky.social

We at @josimarfootball.bsky.social want our investigative reporting to be as widely accessible as possible; this is why this piece, like everything we publish, is paywall-free on the day of publication. But do consider subscribing/donating if you can: we couldn't exist without our readers' support.

Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social

New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social: as Chelsea co-owner Mark Walter's financial empire is disintegrating at dramatic speed, what could be the consequences for his friend Todd Boehly and the London club? By @pbsportswriter.bsky.social.

josimarfootball.comCredit In The Straight World - josimarfootball.comIs Mark Walter’s sudden sale of the LA Lakers a sign of things to come where private credit meets sport?

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David Slack
@slack2thefuture.bsky.social

Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets

cnn.comPeople are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNNAs the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
David Squires
@davidsquires.bsky.social

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Philippe Auclair
@philippeauclair.bsky.social

English FA president, Debbie Hewitt, paid a quarter of a million USD per year for saying "yes, great idea" in Gianni Infantino's Fifa Council, pictured with some friends in NYC last night. It's not just Infantino who is the problem.

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Dave Mathieson
@tinydbass.bsky.social

Replying to @twoht.bsky.social

Me, a bellend: "this doesn't look sustainable" Tuchel, a tactical genius: "these Argentinan lads don't look like scoring, they keep missing by centimeters"

David Squires
@davidsquires.bsky.social

Some wild tactical choices nearly cost England there. Chiefly, my decision to watch it on the notoriously unlucky big telly in the living room, rather than the small one in my office that has played a key role in dragging England to this stage.

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

Gaza’s World Cup screenings – in pictures

theguardian.comGaza’s World Cup screenings – in picturesAid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike. Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before Egypt played Argentina in their last 16 match. He had organised the screening of World Cup games across the Gaza Strip, which had become a welcome diversion from the continuing misery of a very partially observed ceasefire, near daily Israeli strikes