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Ghana coach slams 2026 World Cup: money has taken over football

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Ghana coach slams 2026 World Cup: money has taken over football

Despite leading Ghana to the Round of 32 in the 2026 World Cup, Portuguese manager Carlos Queiroz hasn’t hidden his frustration with this year’s tournament. He has voiced sharp criticism of the new 48-team format, arguing that the World Cup is losing its historical prestige and competitive edge. Speaking after Ghana’s 2-1 defeat to Croatia in their final group stage match, Queiroz contended that expanding the field has diluted the exclusivity of qualifying — an achievement he says once required years of intense effort and fierce competition. The Portuguese coach questioned whether the tournament has actually gained value by adding more…

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Mahmood’s plan to ‘win back the left’ taken to task

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Mahmood’s plan to ‘win back the left’ taken to task

Labour’s hardline home secretary Shabana Mahmood is scheming to ‘win over the Labour left’, according to the Guardian. Her plan is to introduce new safe routes for refugees. According to migration activist Zoe Gardner, however, Mahmood’s proposals are little more than a rebranding exercise: Mahmood’s safe routes amount to rebranded community sponsorship. A lovely but incredibly minor part of refugee protection. If your church can sponsor a refugee family, great. It simply does not come close to replacing the need for an expansive state-run resettlement program. — Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) June 27, 2026 Safe routes The Guardian reported that Mahmood wants to…

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Farage has taken over £80,000 from the US anti-abortion lobby

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Farage has taken over £80,000 from the US anti-abortion lobby

On 7 June, the i Paper revealed that Nigel Farage has personally taken over £83,000 in earnings and expenses from US anti-abortion groups. The news comes less than a week after Reform’s candidate for the Makerfield by-election, Robert Kenyon, faced a grilling on Question Time for his previous comment that: abortion is the cowardly act of women murdering a defenceless baby and that women do it so they can shag anyone they want. Farage, Reform, and the anti-abortion lobby The far-right party has previously claimed that it has no plans to alter UK abortion law. This is a lie. Even before the…

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