Soriano: the case is based on ‘a single false accusation’
Club to appeal after verdict on more than 100 charges
Manchester City’s chief executive, Ferran Soriano, has said the guilty verdicts against the club for breaches of financial rules are based on “a single false accusation” and a “Premier League conspiracy theory”, as he maintained City’s innocence.
It was confirmed on Tuesday that City, according to an independent panel, had artificially inflated revenue and reduced costs by more than £900m over a nine-year period through “sham” sponsorship deals, which were mainly funded by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd (ADUG), which owned the club. In a video sent to City staff after confirmation of the guilty verdict on more than 100 charges, Soriano said the club would appeal and fight the case.
Continue reading...US cannabis and drinks firm Tilray, which took over in March, says it will improve beers, pubs and working conditions
BrewDog’s new owner has urged drinkers to give the ailing brand “a second chance” as it invests more than £50m in improving the company’s beers, pubs and working conditions.
The US cannabis and drinks company Tilray bought BrewDog for £33m in March this year, after the company collapsed into administration after five years of losses and a series of controversies relating to the treatment of workers under the founder James Watt.
Continue reading...In new posture, Kevin Reddington argues there was insufficient evidence that she murdered her children
Lindsay Clancy returned to court on Tuesday in her lawyers’ fight against a possible retrial after a jury earlier in September failed to reach a verdict on charges that she murdered her children – a proceeding that ended without definitive action.
Clancy’s team asked William F Sullivan, the superior court judge in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to deem Clancy, 36, not guilty of murder for killing her three young children in 2023, which she maintains she did while suffering postpartum psychosis and is therefore not legally responsible for. Sullivan on Tuesday only heard arguments on that request.
Continue reading...By linking Brexit, voting reform and public services, the prime minister made a powerful, personal pitch for a brighter future
Andy Burnham’s first speech as prime minister to a Labour conference was a serious attempt to argue that rebuilding the public realm will be better for the country than shrinking the state. He is right about this. Mr Burnham’s belief in the power of government is welcome, as is his instinct that by spending now on public services he will save money later. Admitting that Brexit “has done more harm than good” before setting out options for a closer relationship with the EU could be the speech’s most consequential sentence. Offering voters a bargain at the next election – give up a little of the annual triple-lock increase in pensions for free personal care for older people – is a gamble.
But Mr Burnham clearly thinks that he will be able to show that enough has improved by then for him to ask voters to let him finish what he has started. The prime minister smartly recast “take back control” as a Labour argument. His pitch was that privatisation removed economic control, emasculating local government removed political control, and Brexit reduced control over immigration. This was deftly done – threading a common idea through housing, water, energy and Europe.
Continue reading...A year after mass protests demanding a change in political priorities, gen Z opted out of last week’s poll en masse
The spectacle of young migrants swimming en masse from Moroccan waters to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta exposed the frustration felt by a generation. One-third of the population of Morocco is aged between 15 and 30, and more than one third of that cohort is unemployed. A dearth of opportunity at home incentivises young men in particular to take huge risks to reach the European Union. More than 100 people died in that attempted exodus, most of them by drowning.
Worryingly, an adequate domestic response to a huge generational challenge is a long way off, if Morocco’s latest parliamentary election serves as any guide. In the wake of the Arab spring, democratising reforms were introduced to Morocco’s monarchical system. But a decade and a half after that supposedly transformative moment, last week’s poll laid bare an alarming collapse of trust in politics among the young.
Continue reading...Burnham stakes his future on care, electoral reform and Europe in emotional Labour conference speech
PM says his plan, which includes ending pensions triple lock to fund national care service, will ‘allow us to rise again’
Andy Burnham has staked his future on a gamble that the public will back radical progressive policies on social care, electoral reform and Europe, telling voters that his agenda will break the mould of the last 40 years and “allow us to rise again”.
In a deeply personal speech at Labour’s conference, Burnham began building his next general election manifesto, acknowledging that he may end up paying the price for creating sharp new dividing lines in politics.
Continue reading...A season-by-season breakdown after City were found guilty on all charges related to serious breaches of Premier League financial rules between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 campaigns
Manchester City breached Premier League financial rules by creating “sham” contracts to help inflate revenue and reduce costs by more than £900m over a nine-year period, an independent commission found. The club say they are innocent of the accusations.
Here is a rundown of how they fared over that period, between seasons 2009-10 and 2017-18 …
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2409, barring California public officials from issuing memecoins and prohibiting companies from listing memecoins that use a public official's image or likeness. Engadget reports: The governor's office pointed to reports that about a million investors lost an alleged $3.8 billion on their purchases of the memecoin released by President Donald Trump in 2025 as a the motivation behind the new rule.
"No official should profit off their office -- and we're putting stronger protections in place to ensure it doesn't happen in our state," Newsom said. The bill also prohibits a company, related or not, from making a memecoin using "the likeness or image" of a public official.
"No official should profit off their office -- and we're putting stronger protections in place to ensure it doesn't happen in our state," Newsom said. The bill also prohibits a company, related or not, from making a memecoin using "the likeness or image" of a public official.
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There’s a pattern that Facebook (well, Meta — you know, those folks behind Instagram and WhatsApp and the direct enabling of the Rohingya genocide) has been following for decades now that everyone in the worlds of policy and regulation and journalism seems to be constitutionally incapable of understanding. So I wanted to take a moment to explain it, clearly and simply, in hopes that this will at least make it obvious when everyone is being tricked again. Feel free to use this as a reference to send to your favorite legislator or journalist the next time they’re getting fooled by Mark Zuckerberg.
- Launch a new product or feature that very obviously violates people’s privacy or consent. (This one, you’re probably familiar with; they do this constantly, and sometimes it even makes headlines.)
- Get caught, either by users or by tech experts or researchers who find out Meta has been doing this nefarious thing.
- Put out a press release announcing that Meta will be pausing this practice, while explaining how it wasn’t really that bad.
- Wait a little while until everybody is paying attention to something else, or the next scandal has popped up.
- Launch the product or feature again, and steal everybody’s data or surveil everybody’s behavior without their consent or respect for their privacy.
Of course, by the time the transgressive technology comes back around, everyone has moved on to the next terrible thing, and the company gets away with the thing that had everyone up in arms in the first place. Within the company, this is taken as proof that it wasn’t a bad idea to begin with: “See? They were complaining about nothing!” It’s a part of the “inevitability” strategy that so much of Silicon Valley has been using for years, where treating new technologies as if they were inexorable parts of nature is a tactic for getting every part of society to go along with their most extreme plans.
Much of this relies on people having short attention spans, on institutions that don’t hold these big companies accountable, and on the coercive power that big platforms like Meta’s have over people’s lives (they effectively make it impossible for most people to opt out without facing dire social consequences).
It’s especially important to identify these patterns because the alumni of these companies bring these toxic behaviors with them when they go on to their subsequent roles. It’s no coincidence, for example, that so many former Facebook product managers work at OpenAI and that ChatGPT has run the same playbook in terms of abusing people’s privacy and trust.
While we don’t have an immediate solution for this broken behavior, at least for the foreseeable future, what we can do is identify these patterns and name them, and call them out when we see them repeat. See if you can’t identify some examples yourself, both from the past and perhaps some that are happening right now.
Throwbacks:
Which races have been won by an even tighter margin than George Russell's 0.196s victory over Max Verstappen in Azerbaijan?
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Even flink tekeergaan als je woedend bent. Een rondje hardlopen, tegen een boksbal slaan of desnoods iets kapotmaken in een ‘rage room’. Het klinkt logisch: laat de stoom ontsnappen en de woede zakt vanzelf. Alleen werkt het menselijk brein blijkbaar niet als een snelkookpan.
Een grote analyse uit 2024 vond weinig bewijs dat afreageren helpt. Soms werd de woede er zelfs erger door.
"Ik denk dat het heel belangrijk is om de mythe te ontkrachten dat je, als je boos bent, stoom moet afblazen of het van je af moet zetten”, zei communicatieonderzoeker Brad Bushman van Ohio State University. "Woede afreageren klinkt misschien als een goed idee, maar er is geen greintje wetenschappelijk bewijs dat de catharsistheorie ondersteunt.”
Dat betekent niet dat je boosheid moet negeren. Nadenken over de oorzaak kan helpen om te begrijpen waarom je kwaad bent en onderliggende problemen aan te pakken. Maar ventileren kan gemakkelijk omslaan in blijven malen.
Kalmeren werkt beter
De sleutel lijkt te liggen bij lichamelijke opwinding. Wie boos is, kan beter proberen die naar beneden te brengen. "Om woede te verminderen, kun je beter activiteiten doen die het niveau van opwinding verlagen”, aldus Bushman. "Ondanks wat de volkswijsheid misschien suggereert, is zelfs gaan hardlopen geen effectieve strategie, omdat het de opwinding verhoogt en uiteindelijk averechts werkt.”
De analyse bekeek uiteenlopende activiteiten, van boksen, fietsen en joggen tot diep ademhalen, mediteren en yoga. Vooral kalmerende bezigheden bleken effectief. Denk aan rustige yoga, mindfulness, progressieve spierontspanning, middenrifademhaling en simpelweg een time-out nemen.
"Het was heel interessant om te zien dat progressieve spierontspanning en gewoon ontspannen in het algemeen mogelijk even effectief zijn als benaderingen zoals mindfulness en meditatie”, zei communicatieonderzoeker Sophie Kjærvik van Virginia Commonwealth University.
De meeste activiteiten die de lichamelijke opwinding verhogen, verminderden woede niet. Joggen sprong er zelfs uit als activiteit die de boosheid kon vergroten. Balsporten en andere speelse vormen van beweging leken daarentegen de lichamelijke opwinding te verminderen.
Bron: Science Alert
De politie heeft twee 15-jarige Rotterdamse jongens aangehouden voor hun betrokkenheid bij een gewapende overval. De twee overvielen op 13 mei samen een tankstation aan de Tjalklaan in Rotterdam-Delfshaven. Een van de twee jongens kwam op 9 juli terug voor een tweede overval.
De politie heeft twee 15-jarige Rotterdamse jongens aangehouden voor hun betrokkenheid bij een gewapende overval. De twee overvielen op 13 mei samen een tankstation aan de Tjalklaan in Rotterdam-Delfshaven. Een van de twee jongens deed op 9 juli nog een tweede poging op dezelfde plek.
De 17-jarige Disa belandde dit weekend in een doodenge situatie waarbij een vrouw haar nek brak en zij moest bellen met 112. “Het was echt heel, heel erg eng.”
De vrouw, die rustig aan het wandelen was over straat, werd geschept door een auto en vloog door de lucht tegen een gebouw aan; overal zat bloed en het hoofd van de vrouw lag in een gekke knik. “Ik zag het ongeluk gebeuren en ik voelde eigenlijk gelijk paniek”, vertelt Disa die rilt bij de herinnering. “De impact van de auto was enorm en toen de auto ook nog eens hard doorreed, kon ik nog maar aan één ding kon denken: een telefoontje naar 112 is onvermijdelijk.”
De tiener vertelt dat zij eerst nog probeerde of de vrouw niet zelf kon bellen. “Ik zag dat zij nog ademende dus ik probeerde haar wakker te schudden, maar zij reageerde maar niet. Haar nek leek eigenlijk alleen maar schuiner te gaan hangen. Ook schreeuwen hielp niet. Toen een lange wandeling door de buurt, opzoek naar andere mensen, ook niets opleverde wist ik dat er geen andere optie meer was.”
“Met trillende vingers heb ik het nummer ingetoetst. Tussen het kokhalzen door heb ik uiteindelijk in steekwoorden uit kunnen leggen wat er gebeurt was. Het was balen dat de vrouw niet meer leek adem te halen, was het bellen toch helemaal voor niets.”
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