FIFA opens disciplinary case against Argentina

• Post author:Faz Ali
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

FIFA has launched disciplinary proceedings against Argentina following several alleged breaches during the 2026 World Cup, with the governing body examining incidents from both the semi-final win over England and the final defeat to Spain. The case centres on discriminatory behaviour, team misconduct, protocol failures, and the use of an inappropriate political message. Specifically the Falklands banner displayed after Argentina’s 2-1 semi-final victory in Atlanta. The banner, which read “the Falklands are Argentine” is being treated as a potential breach of article 13 paragraph 2 c) of the FIFA disciplinary code, which prohibits demonstrations of a non-sporting nature at football events.…

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Eddie Howe leaves Newcastle after nearly five years in charge

• Post author:Faz Ali
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

Eddie Howe’s time at Newcastle United is over. After nearly five years in charge, the head coach has stepped down following discussions with the club’s hierarchy over the past 48 hours. The move, however, did not come out of nowhere. Howe had already begun contemplating a departure weeks earlier, even as he continued preparing the squad for their Premier League opener against Liverpool on August 23. His exit lands just 25 days before that fixture. It also arrives at a moment when Newcastle are attempting to stabilise after a turbulent summer of major sales, shifting priorities and growing uncertainty around key…

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Breaking: Supreme Court permits challenge to Palestine Action ban

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

The Supreme Court has today granted Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori permission to challenge the government’s continued terrorism ban on the group. Palestine Action was ‘proscribed’ in July 2025. The ban was overturned in February 2026 by the High Court, which found it unlawful. Shabana Mahmood – still home secretary despite a change of PM – was allowed to go to the Court of Appeals. The appeals court overturned the High Court’s decision in June 2026, ruling that Mahmood was better placed than legal experts to decide what is a justified infringement on UK human rights. But today, 30 July 2026,…

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US ammunition ship docked in Wales during Iran strikes

• Post author:PHIL MILLER
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

The Sagamore is a key vessel for keeping US bases in Britain stocked up with bombs A container ship used by the US military to supply its airbases in Britain with bombs docked in south Wales last week, it can be revealed. The move came as President Trump resumed using RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran after Andy Burnham granted permission, sparking threats of retaliation from Tehran. Trump used Fairford extensively to bomb Iran earlier this year during Keir Starmer’s premiership. The US air force sent so many combat flights from Fairford that its supply of bombs was running low,…

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Infantino’s World Cup commercialisation push hits a brick wall

• Post author:Alaa Shamali
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has unveiled a commercial project. It could become one of the biggest financial ventures in the organisation’s history. The plan would partially privatise FIFA’s commercial operations, most notably the World Cup. For the first time, outside investors would be allowed to take a stake in these activities. Below, Al-Kanari breaks down the key elements of the proposal, how it would work, its potential value, and why it has faced such strong opposition. A new commercial company At the centre of the proposal is the creation of a new independent company, FIFA Forward Enterprise. This company would take…

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Israel bombs Gaza family’s tent, killing children – after bombing their home

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

The occupation has murdered children of the Al Balawi family overnight in Gaza. Israel is continuing to violate the supposed ‘ceasefire’ nightly. The family’s tent in Gaza City was bombed, killing several children and severely wounding others – among multiple such bombings around midnight. Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat posted a graphic series of images depicting the bodies of murdered children covered in blood – viewer discretion is advised. Gaza pummelled by terror state This is not the first time that the family’s children have been targeted by the colonial occupier. The IOF bombed their home in southern Gaza City eight months…

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Nazi-linked Reform councillor linked to vigilante street group

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

The National have linked a Reform councillor who spoke at a ‘Nazi rally’ to a far-right vigilante group. And she’s not even the only one linked to these awful groups: NEW: Reform councillor Audrey Dempsey, who shared a stage with neo-Nazis this weekend in Glasgow, has actually been "advising" a far-right vigilante street patrol group in the city The National can reveal that she has been guiding the group on going to the "next level" pic.twitter.com/lmRB6xtrp8 — Laura Webster (@LauraEWebsterr) July 29, 2026 Nazis We should note that Reform politicians have disputed that the ‘Nazi rally’ was in fact a Nazi…

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Bridget Phillipson, new Labour chair, funded by pro-Israeli lobbyists

• Post author:Jody McIntyre
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

On June 28th, unelected Prime Minister Andy Burnham appointed Bridget Phillipson as the new Labour Party chair. What many in the mainstream media did not report, however, is Phillipson’s connection to Stuart Roden, a lobbyist with links to Israeli intelligence. Stuart Roden In 2023, Phillipson registered two £40,000 donations from Roden, the co-founder of Hetz Ventures, a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm he set up with London-born former Israeli intelligence officer Judah Taub. According to a Declassified UK report, Roden’s Hetz firm employs: an array of former Israeli soldiers, many of whom have served in elite intelligence units. Last year, leaked…

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‘Scandal within a scandal’: DWP fails to begin Post Office convictions review

• Post author:Cameron Baillie
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

The UK government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is still failing families affected by the potentially wrongful Post Office convictions scandal. It’s now almost 12 months since the DWP first announced its review into its infamous handling of prosecutions against Post Office staff. Yet no review has begun and still no reviewer is even appointed. The widow of a sub-postmaster told Sky News she is “extremely” frustrated at the stalling of the review. It is supposed to investigate the (mis)handled prosecutions of multiple Post Office staff. The DWP was involved in bringing prosecutions against roughly 100 Post Office staff from…

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Swansea University backslides on commitment not to work with the fossil fuel industry

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

The University of Swansea has U-turned on a 2023 commitment to cut careers and recruitment ties with fossil fuel companies, against the wishes of student and staff campaigners. Following one of the hottest Junes on record, the university has removed pledges from its Ethical Careers Policy to: not knowingly devise marketing campaigns advertising […] roles which contribute to the detrimental effects of the fossil fuels, mining, arms and tobacco industries [and to exclude oil, gas and tar sands companies from access to] careers fairs and employer events. In removing these statements, the university is effectively now permitting fossil fuel companies to…

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Spanish spycops target Catalan newspaper la Directa

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has opened sanctioning proceedings against la Directa. This follows it publishing investigations into undercover police officers within social and pro-independence movements. This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference at the Barcelona Press Association by the outlet, together with Irídia – Centre for the Defence of Human Rights and the Ramon Barnils Group of Journalists. The action stems from a complaint filed by four of the police officers who, between 2020 and 2023, infiltrated social and political movements in Catalonia and the Valencian Country without judicial authorisation. The complaints were initially dismissed, but the…

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Unions boycott Labour Women’s Conference over blanket trans ban policy

• Post author:Grace
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

Four of the eleven unions officially affiliated with the Labour Party have announced that they will boycott the Labour Women’s Conference this year. Unison, Aslef, Usdaw, and the Musicians’ Union cited the party’s decision to ban trans women from attending the event. The news follows Labour’s cancellation of the 2025 women’s conference after the Supreme Court’s ruling that ‘woman’ refers to sex-assigned-at-birth under the Equality Act 2010. ‘Compliance with the law’ In December, the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) then took a vote to formally exclude trans women from proceedings at the women’s conference. Note, particularly, that the trans ban at…

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Reform report Polanski to police over picture he didn’t post

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

On Wednesday 27 July, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage posted the following to Twitter/X: This is what Zack Polanski has just posted on his instagram. If I was to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and so should Polanski. pic.twitter.com/u1s25FQ38U — Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) July 27, 2026 The image in question shows a guillotine next to the message “We’re only making plans for Nigel”. And Farage is certainly correct to think he would have attracted criticism if he’d published something similar. Farage is less correct to suggest Polanski ‘posted’ the image, but we do agree the…

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Israel wants to ensure US military support is permanent and irreversible

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

A new CIA assessment has exposed how Israel is scrabbling to entrench permanent US military backing. The settler-colonial state is terrified that future administrations will cut support amid plummeting public support. They’re right to worry. Israel’s brazenly genocidal assault on the Palestinians has seen traditionally solid US support for the ethno-state plunge. “Israel-first” Journalist Aida Chavez, formerly of the Nation and the Intercept, wrote on her Class and Empire Substack: Israeli officials believe the political fight over Israel in the United States is becoming harder to win, and that the era of indefinitely securing billions of dollars in annual military aid…

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Farage refuses to condemn Reform death threat against woman MP

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

Floundering Nigel Farage has set the police on Green leader Zack Polanski for accepting an Instagram collaboration invite on an Instagram post. One of some twenty images in the post showed a protester wearing a t-shirt showing a guillotine with the wording “We’re only making plans for Nigel”. Obvious political satire, but Farage and the right-wing media are clutching their pearls over the supposed death threat. Hypocrite Farage But Farage has his own form. Farage has farcically claimed to be the most threatened UK politician – despite the actual murder of several MPs. But he also refused to condemn a senior…

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Palantir boss calls majority of Brits a ‘noisy minority’

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

Palantir is an American company which makes spy and military tech. Some of this technology has been used by Israel to carry out its genocide. And as such, it’s no wonder a significant portion of the population don’t want the UK to have anything to do with the company. How are Palantir responding to this, you ask? Currently by labelling the majority of Britons a “noisy minority”: 65% of the British public want the NHS to drop its contract with Palantir. They try to paint us an a minority – when it is Palantir who are swimming against the tide of…

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Trump gives data centres freedom to cause acid rain

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:30 July 2026
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Data centres are getting a bad reputation for how much energy and water they use (something particularly problematic for AI data centres). The reputation these data centres have will likely only get worse too, because Trump is seemingly giving them permission to create acid rain: The Trump administration has exempted data centers from acid rain regulations, removing caps on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. pic.twitter.com/2rPzFptVwy — FactPost (@factpostnews) July 29, 2026 When it rains Acid rain was a commonly discussed problem in the late 20th century. It’s spoken about less now because scientists were successful at identifying the problem and formulating…

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Fraudster sent mum £2m before she made suspect Reform donation

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

Reform UK and Nigel Farage are facing questions over multiple, ongoing financial scandals right now. Several of them link to the aristocrat George Cottrell (a.k.a. ‘Posh George’). Somehow, the details keep looking worse and worse for everyone involved: New excl: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her sonhttps://t.co/dzzPw0cU10 — Anna Isaac (@Annaisaac) July 29, 2026 Aristo-cash Posh George is a convicted fraudster who’s involved in an offshore crypto gambling platform. The ongoing scandals linking him to…

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Palestine campaigners protesting scandalous Israel match occupy Irish Department of Sport

• Post author:Robert Freeman
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:1 August 2026

Irish anti-genocide activists have boldly occupied the Department of Sport’s headquarters in Dublin. The campaigners did so in opposition to the Football Association of Ireland’s (FAI) disgraceful decision to proceed with fixtures against apartheid ‘Israel’, the illegitimate land theft project occupying historic Palestine. In a statement, League of Ireland Fans for Palestine, a key player in the Stop The Game campaign, said: [The action] is part of a continuing protest which will intensify until these two shameful fixtures have been stopped. The Government has placed pressure on the FAI, who are also culpable, to fulfil these fixtures. Taoiseach Micheal Martin was…

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Led by Donkeys paid £27k for destroyed anti-genocide banner

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

Protest group Led by Donkeys has received more than £27,000 in compensation for a banner unlawfully taken by the Greater London Authority and subsequently destroyed. The banner, which read “Yes, it’s a genocide”, was seized during a peaceful protest in Parliament Square. It was taken as part of the UK’s authoritarian war on speech and protest against Israel’s crimes against humanity. It was later destroyed by waste management company Veolia, which has now paid compensation of £27,216. The firm claimed it had destroyed the banner because storing it was a health and safety issue. Protest group face coordinated repression Led by…

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