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Children of the 2026 World Cup — generational ties on full display

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Children of the 2026 World Cup — generational ties on full display

At the World Cup, it’s not just the matches that repeat themselves—names also recur across generations. Between fathers who played in the World Cup decades ago and their sons who now stand on the same stage, one of soccer’s most compelling human stories unfolds. In particular, the family legacy is passed down the generations. The 2026 edition features a series of stories bridging past and the present, where Mazinho crosses paths with his son Thiago Alcântara, and Zinedine Zidane with his son Luca. There’s also Mustafa Shubair, following directly in the footsteps of his father, Ahmed Shubair. World Cup football families…

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Unprecedented urgency to protect Gaza’s 58,550 orphans according to new report

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Unprecedented urgency to protect Gaza’s 58,550 orphans according to new report

A new report titled Lighting the Path for Orphaned Children in Gaza – A Call to Action, has been published by non-profit organisation Taawon. It lays bare the scale of Gaza’s orphan crisis, and the failure of the system which is meant to be responding to it, but which the Israeli occupation has intentionally shattered during the genocide. A social worker at a Gaza-based orphan care organisation said in July 2025: We don’t know if the child sitting in front of us is receiving support from three other organizations or from no one. We have no system to check. We do our…

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Media scrutiny of Burnham just hit a new low

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Media scrutiny of Burnham just hit a new low

Andy Burnham is set to become the UK prime minister despite us having no idea how he intends to administer us. Given this, every journalist who gets within spitting distance should be demanding to know what the plan is. Instead, we’re getting sh*te like this: I asked in our video on #PMQs what Andy Burnham might have thought of being called ‘a pair of eyelashes & a black t-shirt’. We have our answer @IzzyLosseff https://t.co/rWcTm9meIF — Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) June 24, 2026 We are not a serious country For clarity’s sake, the above video features a coquettish Burnham saying: It’s dark…

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‘Pro-Israel MPs tried to shut down Israel lobby debate’ – MEND

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‘Pro-Israel MPs tried to shut down Israel lobby debate’ – MEND

British Muslim group MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development) has dissected the attempts of pro-Israel MPs to shut down a debate on Israel’s influence in UK politics. The sick farce is the latest instalment in the Starmer regime’s cover-up of Israel’s interference. The government commissioned a report into foreign political interference without mentioning Israel at all. The report, unsurprisingly, made zero references to Israel, whose lobby funds a majority of government ministers. Israel lobby shut down debate The debate took place because it was demanded by well over 100,000 people. Yet the attempts to shut it down were as shameless as the…

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Trump doesn’t like Burnham, and Burnham doesn’t like…..well TBD

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Trump doesn’t like Burnham, and Burnham doesn’t like…..well TBD

According to Donald Trump, likely Labour leadership replacement Andy Burnham is a signal that “the UK is dying”. As far as we’re concerned, that’s the biggest vote of confidence the newly-minted Makerfield MP has gotten so far. The US dictator made his first public comments on Burnham on 24 June, during a meeting with NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte. When asked what he knew of the former Manchester mayor, Trump said: I don’t know, I think I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town. England’s second city, but we guess that doesn’t mean much when you consider yourself…

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Labour’s Burgon to bring debate to Parliament to ban lucrative side gigs for MPs

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Labour’s Burgon to bring debate to Parliament to ban lucrative side gigs for MPs

Labour MP Richard Burgon has secured a debate in Parliament which will consider banning second jobs for all MPs. Whilst some MPs insist their roles in healthcare and law should be continued alongside MP responsibilities, this loophole has enabled other greedy MPs to turn to lucrative side gigs which bring their priorities into question. For instance, Burgon cites Farage pocketing more than £1m since being elected in “outside work” despite MPs being afforded a pretty high salary from the public purse placing them firmly in the top 1% of earners. Other reports have said that figure is actually £2m. He says:…

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Hottest June day ever provokes climate denial from right-wing cranks

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Hottest June day ever provokes climate denial from right-wing cranks

Wednesday 24 June was the hottest British day on record. In response to this, figures like Zack Polanski are calling for a renewed focus on the climate crisis: It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations. pic.twitter.com/SRv3myB8V3 — Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) June 24, 2026 The nation’s cranks, meanwhile, are out and about spewing hot air. Hottest day prompts climate denial Professional bullsh*t artist Rupert Lowe of Reform UK replied…

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Why major polluters need kicking out of football 

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Why major polluters need kicking out of football 

With extreme weather and war wreaking havoc on football in communities around the world, the sport’s entanglement with fossil fuels further endangers the game itself… as well as players, fans and everyone else besides. But it doesn’t have to be this way, as a series of recent reports spell out. Players and pitches in peril Player safety has been a “hot topic” with this year’s FIFA Men’s World Cup underway. Climate Central estimates that the number of “extremely hot” June and July days in host cities has roughly tripled since North America last hosted the tournament in the 1990s. The heat…

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Senior Graham ally deletes ‘blackface’ Facebook post

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Senior Graham ally deletes ‘blackface’ Facebook post

Scot Walker, a senior and close ally of Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, has deleted an image of himself wearing a beard-and-dreads mask. Walker had posted the image to his Facebook feed, triggering a storm of outrage at the ‘blackface’ get-up: Walker runs Unite’s so-called ‘Workers’ Economy‘, which union insiders have said Graham created to circumvent Unite’s Community section for unwaged members. Unite Community was set up by her predecessor Len McCluskey, whom Graham has long attacked with what McCluskey called “pages of smears and innuendo”. Union members and staff said that Graham planned to shut down Community if she wins…

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Polanski brands Burnham a ‘Blair tribute act’

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Polanski brands Burnham a ‘Blair tribute act’

Andy Burnham appears set to take over from the outgoing Keir Starmer – but Zack Polanski has some questions. Of course, Starmer stepping aside means Burnham is set to become the country’s leader without proper scrutiny of what he has planned or how he intends to deliver it. While Burnham’s own words on this remain contradictory, we are starting to get an idea of what his government will look like. And Zack Polanski has responded as follows: NEW: Zack Polanski has accused Andy Burnham of a being a "Blair tribute act" over his move to hire top lobbyist and New Labour…

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Union bosses’ fossil activism makes an enemy of the global working class

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Union bosses’ fossil activism makes an enemy of the global working class

Sharon Graham is the general secretary of Unite, the trade union. However, with rogue comments this week in defence of British fossil fuel interests, she appears to be making an enemy of the global working class. She’s joined by GMB chief Gary Smith, who’s been briefing the Times about net-zero ‘madness’. As the UK awaits the coronation of Makerfield MP Andy Burnham — and, perhaps more importantly, his cabinet-in-waiting — Ed Miliband’s name crops up repeatedly. This is hardly surprising, since Miliband has served different roles on Labour’s front benches, including as leader, for much of two decades. Miliband’s core commitment is…

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Radical Listening sessions in Newcastle aim to tear down the walls dividing us

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Radical Listening sessions in Newcastle aim to tear down the walls dividing us

Majority has been hosting “Radical Listening, Radical Persuasion” sessions in Newcastle in recent months. And ahead of the latest session, on 24 June, we spoke to co-presenters Steph Langford and Hugo Fearnley to find out more about their efforts to unite people across different communities by finding common ground between them. What does ‘radical listening’ actually mean? Radical listening, Fearnley explained, is about connecting with other people: in a different way so that you understand where they’re coming from a little bit more before you even open your mouth and try and have a conversation, debate, argument Few people, he said,…

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New report details long-standing systematic failures in Nottingham’s maternity care

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New report details long-standing systematic failures in Nottingham’s maternity care

On 24 June, independent senior midwife Donna Ockenden published her long-awaited review of failures in maternity care under Nottingham university hospitals (NUH) NHS trust. The report identified: long-standing and deeply embedded systemic failures across multiple areas of maternity and neonatal care. Then-health secretary Sajid Javid first commissioned the review after eight families came forward with accounts of the harm and loss they suffered. However, by the time the review closed in May 2025, almost 2,500 families had taken part. For the most part, their experiences covered just over 3 years, beginning in 2012. Likewise, over 800 members of NUH staff contacted…

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Trade Unions and climate groups call national Heat Strike

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Trade Unions and climate groups call national Heat Strike

A coalition of trade unions and climate groups announced on 23 June that they’re calling a national Heat Strike at the peak of the heatwave this week. This is after the UK Health Security Agency issued a rare red heat health alert, followed by the Met Office’s Red Extreme Heat Warning for parts of England. Temperatures were forecast to reach as high as 39°C, smashing previous records for June. Along with members of the public around the UK, the organisations taking part in the Heat Strike include: Trades Union Congress (TUC). Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU). Fire Brigades Union…

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Badnoch sinks to new lows as MPs appear increasingly out of touch

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Badnoch sinks to new lows as MPs appear increasingly out of touch

Conservative leader Badenoch has descended into the gutter of British politics as she threw loaded words like “traitor” at Labour MPs and made clear her disgust at politicians apparently seeking to improve inequality in the UK. Taking aim at Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, who she says has been “loyal and incompetent”, Badenoch disgustingly stated: It turns out, appointing a spiteful class warrior as education secretary was a disaster. However, she also pointed out how the taxes were introduced to increase the number of teachers in state schools — which hasn’t borne out — but Badenoch appears more to have an issue…

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Protests outside global far-right ARC London conference

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Protests outside global far-right ARC London conference

Activists gathered outside Kensington Olympia on 23 June, as delegates arrived for the first day of the far-right ‘Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’ (ARC) conference. Over 10 other campaign groups, including Greenpeace, Take Back Power and Queers for Palestine, joined protest organiser Fossil Free London. The conference has been described as: Glastonbury for climate science deniers, Trump acolytes, manosphere enthusiasts and nihilists in general. Protesters wore frog costumes and carried signs reading “Fossil Fuels Fund Fascism”, “Oily Fascists Out of London” and “Frogs Together Strong”. The theme took inspiration from the protest movement that emerged in the US in late 2025, where…

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Burnham says “we under tax wealth” but will he do anything about it?

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Burnham says “we under tax wealth” but will he do anything about it?

Tax Justice UK have posted a video filmed in November, challenging the newly elected Makerfield MP and likely-PM Andy Burnham on his position on wealth taxes. This comes as Burnham looks likely to take the top job of PM, leading many to pay attention to whether he sticks by his prior commitments. At the time, Andy Burnham seemed to recognise the unfairness of a system that taxes work heavily while allowing many of the wealthiest to pay less than ordinary workers. He notably said: We under tax wealth. If you take something as simple as council tax, people here [Manchester city…

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EXPOSED: UK media’s hierarchy of racism after Edinburgh terror attacks

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EXPOSED: UK media’s hierarchy of racism after Edinburgh terror attacks

Islamophobia — The UK’s hierarchy of racism was clearly on display after the terror attacks in Edinburgh on 19 June, as an analysis of news coverage has shown. The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) has previously called out the amount of anti-Muslim propaganda in the British media. And having now compared coverage of the Edinburgh attacks with coverage of the 29 April Golders Green attacks, it has found that the media is also underplaying terror attacks that target Muslims. Islamophobia — The UK’s racist media establishment The hierarchy of racism in the UK is particularly obvious on the right of the…

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US Senate passes War Powers Resolution, heaping embarrassment on Trump’s Iran loss

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US Senate passes War Powers Resolution, heaping embarrassment on Trump’s Iran loss

Trump’s war on Iran has finally gone too far even for the Republican-controlled US Senate — on 23 June, the upper house passed a War Powers Resolution nominally barring the president from continuing hostilities against Iran without congressional approval. Unfortunately, the resolution is primarily a symbolic gesture. Whilst the resolution passed the lower House of Representatives at the beginning of June, and has now passed through the Senate, it won’t be passed to Trump for his approval. Likewise, it won’t carry the weight of law. Meanwhile, Trump has called the act “poorly timed and meaningless”, and signalled his intent to ignore…

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Heroes disrupt Dublin conference hosted by genocide-backing Microsoft

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Heroes disrupt Dublin conference hosted by genocide-backing Microsoft

The absolute legends from pro-Palestine campaign group Your Tech Their Deaths (YTTD) have disrupted a Dublin conference hosted by the disgraced Microsoft, a company that has operated as the tech backbone of so-called ‘Israel’s’ holocaust in Gaza. The conference in question was Big Data Dublin 2026, held at the vomit-inducing address ‘One Microsoft Place’. In Ireland, we don’t just enable genocidaires, we now name streets after them. The blurb for the event says: Join Microsoft and Analytics Engine for Big Data Dublin 2026, a flagship event bringing together Ireland’s leading organisations to explore how AI and data are being applied to…

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