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And how many others, I wonder, saw the gallows that shouldn't have done?

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be given the death penalty in the UK, given a posthumous pardon/commutation. Darkly ironic that the last use of an absolute punishment (death penalty) against a woman in the UK has now been shown to be a miscarriage of justice. Shows how flawed the entire system always was.

Binface at 9/2 at William Hill, apparently. Even if he doesn't really look like winning, Binface simply getting close enough to make Farage take the opponent "seriously" would be damagingly embarrassing.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5822558/pastor-doug-wilson-interview-pete-hegseth And this man has a direct line to the highest echelons of the most powerful government on the planet. Imagine the outcry if a Taliban member (for example) had given this kind of spiel to an interviewer.

Egypt showing their knockout tournament inexperience with this collapse. Damn shame.

Superb save.

... maybe it's (apparently) too much like questioning a footballing God, but perhaps someone should have a word in Messi's ear about not being the designated penalty taker for Argentina?

Tune.

Well, now everyone's clear that it's all going to be a pointless and expensive publicity stunt, how about everyone giving it absolutely zero publicity, as it deserves? Farage and his PLC have been permitted to manipulate the media for their own malicious gain for too long as it is.

If this is him stepping away from a more public stage, one can only assume that whatever allegations are against him at the moment are both serious and ones he can't deflect with responses of "fake news".

Absolutely, and I'm not sure that he will be. It's unfortunate that clickbait is implying otherwise with certainty.

Do we know if these include any kind of unsupervised public interaction? Don't get me wrong, AFAIC the guy is clearly a piece of work, however I'm thinking there's a little bit of creative wording going on regarding what this person can and cannot do now. "Released" implies "free to do as they like in public", and if that's the case, then something has really gone seriously sideways.

Provided that Argentina win tonight, at least 5 of the quarter finalists in this World Cup will be from the top 8 in the world and all of them will be from the top 12 (as per ELO rankings). The two teams in the top 8 already out were put out by one of the other top 8 teams. Shows that overall class is telling as the business end of the tournament approaches.

He's still detained at another institution (and rightly so, he shouldn't be in public again ever) so he's not actually "released", is he?

Not 100% humiliation, but good enough for me.

Well done, Arthur. Well done.

At least guaranteed the match tie break, then.

I dunno - I think the time for viewing the man and his actions as some kind of quasi-amusing sideshow rather passed a while back, considering their consequences.

At the very least, the decision to not give it at the time was not a clear and obvious error and therefore the on field decision should have stood.

Well, given that there are much larger "wastes" of the exchequer than this, you're in all likelihood correct here. Crooked.

Very broken. Surely there are much worse strains on the exchequer than ensuring those who suffer from horrible miscarriages of justice like this are compensated for the time and anguish it has cost them?

Even UEFA are giving FIFA pelters over the Balogun decision now.

A good run here, especially backed by performances like last night's, could have a really positive effect on the national psyche. Which, as you say, is both refreshing and sorely needed in times that, shall we say, are trying.

What kind of sodding timeline are we in where Sepp Blatter is the voice of reason?