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Will Ronaldo and his son both wear the Portugal shirt at Euro 2028?

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Will Ronaldo and his son both wear the Portugal shirt at Euro 2028?

Cristiano Ronaldo JΓΊnior, the son of Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo, has sparked renewed interest in football circles after the Sunday Guardian reported on the possibility of the young player being given a chance with the senior Portugal squad in 2027. Should this come to pass, it could pave the way for one of football’s most eagerly anticipated spectacles: Cristiano Ronaldo and his son both wearing the Portugal shirt at the 2028 European Championship finals. A new chapter in Ronaldo JΓΊnior’s career Ronaldo JΓΊnior, born in 2010, has already begun representing Portugal at youth level, whilst continuing to develop his footballing career…

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CubarsΓ­ leads the race for the 2026 Golden Boy Award

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CubarsΓ­ leads the race for the 2026 Golden Boy Award

Spanish defender Pau CubarsΓ­ of Barcelona has firmly established himself as one of the leading contenders for the 2026 Golden Boy Award, having topped the rankings in the latest update, 700 points ahead of his teammate Lamine Yamal, in a race that reflects the remarkable transformation in the young defender’s career during an exceptional year. Koparsi’s rise to the top comes after a football season in which he established himself as one of the most prominent young defenders in world football, having transformed from a promising talent into a key figure in the defence of both Barcelona and the Spanish national…

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US now says allies including the EU, Israel, and India are involved in a transshipment scam with China

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US now says allies including the EU, Israel, and India are involved in a transshipment scam with China

Not aliens or COVID this time – the latest global conspiracy against the USA, according to the Trump administration, is that its allies are trading with China and committing the “great transshipment scam.” The Great Transshipment Scam In a 25-page report titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” released by the White House, the Trump admin names more than 40 countries, including America’s closest allies, as co-conspirators helping evade US tariffs on China.Β  The US loses up to $26 billion annually in tariff revenue due to this scam, according to it. The report’s “Tier 1” list of offenders includes the European Union, Canada,…

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Infertility After the War: Is Gaza Facing a Reproductive Health Crisis?

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Infertility After the War: Is Gaza Facing a Reproductive Health Crisis?

The consequences of war are often measured in the number of people killed, the scale of destruction, and the hospitals forced out of service. But in Gaza, another crisis is unfolding quietly – one whose consequences may extend for decades: a reproductive health crisis. Beyond the immediate injuries of war, thousands are living through conditions that may affect their ability to conceive and build families. Yet this issue receives little attention compared with the other dimensions of Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe. Uncertain futures For Palestinians, having children has long represented continuity, hope, and life. But war does not only kill people; it…

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Coastguards call for vote of no confidence in the boss of their government agency

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Coastguards call for vote of no confidence in the boss of their government agency

Almost 600 Coastguards have called for a vote of no confidence in the chief executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). GMB Union wrote to the MCA chair Lord Stevens in July to ‘formally express our lack of confidence in the leadership of the MCA under Chief Executive Virginia McVea’. Since then, 580 Coastguards across the UK have signed up to the no confidence vote. Lord Stevens has not yet responded to GMB, and the union has now written a further letter to ‘formally escalate the concerns previously raised’. The volunteers are calling for an expression of no confidence, an…

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Gold and the global power games fuelling Mali’s escalating civil war

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Gold and the global power games fuelling Mali’s escalating civil war

Gold production and global power struggles are fuelling a brutal and escalating conflict in Mali, one of Africa’s biggest countries. With the UK being a key player in the global gold trade, what role do we have to play? The battle to trade other people’s gold London has a central position in the global gold trade, despite producing almost no gold itself. The Bank of England, for example, boasts that it’s: the second-largest custodian of gold in the world This is part of the lingering financial power that justifies the US empire keeping the UK on as a junior partner. Gold…

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Kwasi Kwarteng gives the game away on fossil fuel tax cuts

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Kwasi Kwarteng gives the game away on fossil fuel tax cuts

As highlighted by Tax Justice UK, Kwasi Kwarteng has given the game away on taxing oil companies: Oops, Kwarteng said the quiet part out loud: cutting taxes for fossil fuel giants to lΜΆoΜΆwΜΆeΜΆrΜΆ ΜΆyΜΆoΜΆuΜΆrΜΆ ΜΆbΜΆiΜΆlΜΆlΜΆs push their profits higher. We say tax excess profits, cut bills, build renewables, break free from fossil fuel doom-loops. Agree?Act now: https://t.co/nG1r6GI5pr pic.twitter.com/Gk20tiHixo — Tax Justice UK (@TaxJusticeUK) August 12, 2026 Credit to Faiza Shaheen here for pushing him into admitting this. Tax the profiteers Tax Justice are encouraging people to sign a petition which will ‘raise taxes on companies profiteering from the Iran war’. The…

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Farage’s Β£5m gift scandal reported to the police

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Farage’s Β£5m gift scandal reported to the police

Nigel Farage has faced significant scrutiny over the Β£5m ‘gift’ he received from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in 2024. This payment is proving to be a problem, because Farage failed to declare it; all despite knowing MPs have to declare potentially relevant gifts and donations from the 12 months before they enter Parliament. Now, the activist groups Compassion in Politics and Unlock Democracy have reported Farage to the police over the much-discussed gift: NEW Nigel Farage Reported to Met Police Over Alleged Misconduct in Public Office By @josiahmortimer The Reform UK leader's non-disclosure of a Β£5 million 'gift' from a crypto…

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β€œWe never know if we will return safely”: West Bank students speak out against the war on education

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β€œWe never know if we will return safely”: West Bank students speak out against the war on education

Students in the West Bank have become β€œdesensitised” to what Israeli occupation forces have made routine: checkpoints, incursions, intimidation and violence. But what they endure is far from normal. It’s a systematic campaign of disruption and dismantlement. Shams, a 24-year-old journalism and media graduate from Birzeit University, says fear is woven into their everyday life. They tell the Canary: Whenever we leave our homes in the morning, we never know if we will return safely. Death is always close to us. Now young people are dying before the older ones. The journey is extremely difficult. Settler violence and military checkpoints constantly…

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The Times should apologise for Kathleen Stock’s shockingly ableist article

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The Times should apologise for Kathleen Stock’s shockingly ableist article

This weekend I had the unfortunate luck of stumbling across an opinion piece in the Times by the academic, philosopher and transphobe Kathleen Stock. In a nutshell, Stock argues that Gen Z women are pretending to have chronic illnesses and invisible disabilities, and that using walking sticks has become some sort of trend influenced by social media. Raising suspicion in a society that already dismisses women’s health As a millennial woman with hypermobility syndrome, who may one day need a walking stick – I had to use one during the final weeks of my pregnancy – I was immediately incensed. I…

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Settlers use water to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank

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Settlers use water to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers were filmed deliberately emptying vital water tanks in the Palestinian herding community of Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley. Ein al-Hilweh freshwater spring had been used by the farmers and Bedouin shepherds of the village for generations. But in 2019, illegal ‘Israeli’ colonists from the nearby Maskiyot settlement, with the help of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), seized the spring and fenced it off. Now, Palestinians no longer have access to it and the IOF has threatened them with forcible displacement if they try. The community now relies on tankers for their water supply, which is why these…

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Gary Stevenson’s wealth tax vs Dan Neidle’s land value tax: the difference explained

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Gary Stevenson’s wealth tax vs Dan Neidle’s land value tax: the difference explained

Gary Stevenson has been dismantling “childish” arguments against a wealth tax for years on YouTube. His Channel 4 documentary, How to Get Filthy Rich, packaged his arguments as a long-form show for a mainstream audience. Journalists focused on his clash with tax lawyer Dan Neidle, who called Gary’s annual wealth tax proposal “populist claptrap.” The sensationalism around the debate, however, belies a category error: a wealth tax and a land value tax target completely different things, and both can co-exist. Comparing acres and Apple In their discussion, Neidle accused Stevenson of being “unable to separate [his] emotional reaction to inequality with…

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Burnham’s latest cost of living plan is textbook tinkering around the edges

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Burnham’s latest cost of living plan is textbook tinkering around the edges

Writing in theΒ Guardian, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has released his latest plan for driving down the cost of living crisis. While the things he’s proposing aren’t objectionable, they are yet another example of tinkering around the edges. Too many people feel like modern life is designed to catch them out. It should be just as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to start it. And if something is advertised as half price, it should actually be half price. So I'm taking action. We’re taking every opportunity… — Andy Burnham (@andyburnham) August 10, 2026 Burnham reflects on modern life Burnham’s…

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Lebanon’s Politics of Appeasement and the Illusion of Lausanne, 1949

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Lebanon’s Politics of Appeasement and the Illusion of Lausanne, 1949

Israel’s initial expectation of rapidly concluding a formal peace treaty with its northern neighbour in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War proved entirely illusory. The Failed Diplomacy of Lausanne In April 1949, the United Nations established the Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP), sponsoring multilateral Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was at Lausanne that Israeli diplomats discovered a sobering strategic reality: Tel Aviv had yielded its military toehold on the Litani River during the armistice negotiations in return for virtually nothing. The Israeli proposal submitted to the Lebanese delegation at Lausanne was stark in its simplicity, yet exceptionally…

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Good Law Project says EHRC anti-trans code misinterprets the law

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Good Law Project says EHRC anti-trans code misinterprets the law

On 5 August, the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) new transphobic code of practice came into force. However, on that same day, the Good Law Project (GLP) announced that it would support Leigh Day solicitors and two claimants β€” a β€œtrans person and a trans-inclusive organisation” β€” in a legal challenge to the code. As theΒ Canary previously reported, the code doesn’t carry legal weight in itself. Instead, it offers an interpretation of equalities law β€” specifically, the 2025 Supreme Court ruling that trans people should be treated as their assigned sex for the purposes of the Equality Act. The EHRC’s…

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Trump denies weapons shortage but the tungsten ban suggests otherwise

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Trump denies weapons shortage but the tungsten ban suggests otherwise

Donald Trump insists the US has no shortage of weapons. But his latest move to restrict exports for key materials for munitions production β€” tells a different story. Trump recently threatened β€œlong-term jail sentences” for anyone leaking information about alleged munition shortages facing the US, accusing them of making β€œtreasonous statements”. He said: Long-term jail sentences will be sought! Yet while Trump dismisses reports of shortages, his administration has moved to restrict exports of tungsten scrap and black mass β€” two materials critical to weapons production. Depleted supplies of tungsten According to Gavin D. J. HarperΒ from the University of Birmingham, modern…

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The Brick Lane data centre is Labour’s β€˜market Stalinism’ in action

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The Brick Lane data centre is Labour’s β€˜market Stalinism’ in action

Plans to build data centres have been controversial across the UK, but the latest example comes from Brick Lane. Housing Secretary Angela Rayner approved a Β£500 million redevelopment of the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, which will include a data centre. This is despite unanimous opposition to the development from Tower Hamlets council, the local mayor and campaigners. In a borough with over 30,000 households on the social housing waiting list, the council wanted 800 homes on the same site instead. The government’s decision letter gives that plan “no more than limited weight.” Meanwhile, it gives the data centre “significant weight”…

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Trump’s Americas? The CIA has set up a new Cuba taskforce

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Trump’s Americas? The CIA has set up a new Cuba taskforce

Trump’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has set up a new Cuba task force. Its aim, it seems probable, is the overthrow of the ‘communist’ state just 90 miles of the Florida coast. The New York Times claims to have spoken to unnamed insiders with knowledge of the unit. First, a caveat: intelligence sources brief the press for their own reasons. The US clearly wants regime change in Cuba, this is clear. We don’t know whether the briefing itself is meant to influence the relevant parties β€” part of an information war β€” or is a genuine leak. The NYT reported on…

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Two trans rights victories and a legal challenge to the EHRC’s β€˜bathroom ban’

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Two trans rights victories and a legal challenge to the EHRC’s β€˜bathroom ban’

The past week has been a rollercoaster for trans rights in the UK. On Friday 31 July, the High Court rejected a legal challenge to the upcoming trial of puberty-blocking medication. That same day, the court also ruled that police don’t have to perform strip searches based on ‘biological sex’. On 5 August, the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) new transphobic code of practice came into effect. It holds that a trans-inclusive women’s service is β€œvery likely” to be discriminatory on the basis of sex. However, just one day later, the Good Law Project (GLP) has supported a legal challenge…

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Why Rising Student Housing Costs Are Reshaping University Choices in the UK

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Why Rising Student Housing Costs Are Reshaping University Choices in the UK

A December 2024 report from Unipol and HEPI confirmed something students already knew but universities were slow to acknowledge: the maximum student loan in England is now less than the average student rent. You read that right. The government’s own financial support package doesn’t cover your highest single cost. That reality is changing how students choose universities. And if you’re currently deciding where to study, it should change how you think about it too. The Numbers That Are Actually Driving the Decision Student rents in university-owned accommodation rose an average of 12% across UK cities between 2021/22 and 2023/24, with private…

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