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A World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/31/world-cup-sell-stakes-gianni-infantino-fifa
Published: July 31, 2026 12:44
You’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it allImagine a plan so distasteful that even the Americans and a Middle Eastern nepo-royal football boss can’t be…
Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you? | Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/gianni-infantino-world-cup-fifa-instagram
Published: July 28, 2026 11:42
If you thought he was just a shady rule-dodging reprobate, the Fifa boss’s latest 15-page Instagram rant might make you think againI hope you have found time to enjoy Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s 15-page Instagram meltdown about his World Cup. The…
When is an apology not an apology? When it comes from an AI boss with an out-of-control chatbot | Marina Hyde
Published: July 24, 2026 12:32
An incident in which an autonomous OpenAI agent hacked a startup either confirms that the end is nigh – or that the product is just amazingly sophisticatedThroughout history, many things have been seen by terrified populaces as a harbinger of doom. A…
Football, golf … behold the future of world sport: Donald Trump as referee-in-chief | Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/21/donald-trump-football-golf-world-sport-referee
Published: July 21, 2026 12:15
After his dubious intervention at the World Cup, the president is now an arbiter of high-level fairway disputes. There’s one word for that: SAD! For so many of us around the world, the final scenes of the World Cup were a chance to switch off the TV with…
The White House’s guide to manhood: pop some T, restart a war and do WHAT with a corn dog? | Marina Hyde
Published: July 17, 2026 11:56
Pete Hegseth wants to win the war on Iran with a secret weapon: testosterone. Meanwhile, JD Vance is worried about how to eat an ice-creamAre the men of the Trump administration OK? Feels like it’s been a tricky week for some of them. On the one hand,…
One thought on the Clacton contenders: the ‘establishment’ looks a bit different these days, doesn’t it? | Marina Hyde
Published: July 10, 2026 13:08
Nigel Farage has billed his byelection as a clash with the powers that be. To wit: Laurence Fox, a naked celebrity and a man with a bin on his headQuick look at the Clacton byelection field as it stands: Nigel Farage, Count Binface, Piers Corbyn, Laurence…
So it’s Trump 1, Belgium 4 – and the world rejoices. Nothing like failed chicanery to bring us together, is there? | Marina Hyde
Published: July 7, 2026 09:59
Joy is unbounded and when it dies down perhaps the guilty will be held to account for cheating and facilitation: perhaps they won’t. Still, enjoy the momentOh dear. Such a shame to see the US lose at football after their insanely embarrassing president…
The US turns 250 and Taylor Swift gets married. I think we all know which is a bigger deal | Marina Hyde
Published: July 3, 2026 12:11
The cultural phenomenon is beginning her latest era in a castle built inside Madison Square Garden. It’s the perfect celebration for our post-privacy ageIt is a cast-iron rule of the comments-section era that there is absolutely no celebrity you can write…
At last, an economic policy we can all get behind – doubling the royal family’s funding | Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/26/economic-policy-royal-family-funding-windsor
Published: June 26, 2026 11:50
But with rumours about a certain workshy Windsor circulating this week, are we actually encouraging joblessness with an overly generous safety net?Finally, some part of our struggling state is getting a massive budget increase – and it’s not even the…
Welcome to the Andy Burnham show: the Westminster frenzy sucking up the British media’s attention | Marina Hyde
Published: June 23, 2026 16:41
Despite Friday’s awful rail crash, it was the PM-in-waiting’s journey from Manchester to London that dominated the headlinesBogglingly, Andy Burnham didn’t even wait to become prime minister before organising yesterday’s ludicrous photo of him standing in…
Reform’s genius plan is finally coming into view: field terrible candidates then lose | Marina Hyde
Published: June 19, 2026 11:24
The unstoppable Nigel Farage is looking increasingly stoppable in the wake of Makerfield. The actual prime minister, meanwhile, has gone into hidingYou’ll note Keir Starmer is in full bunker mode – and we’ll get to him – but after this Makerfield result,…