UNBEATEN Chelsea eased to a 3-0 London derby victory over West Ham in the Women’s Super League. Melvine Malard gave the Blues a first-half lead but they had to wait until the 80th minute before Keira Walsh gave them some breathing space, and Maika Hamano added a late third. Alexia Putellas and…
TODAY’S Cable Street demonstration was a powerful reminder that capitalist crisis always produces malign symptoms of decay and disintegration. Passing through streets which were once thronged with Jewish and Irish migrant workers it today saw Bangladeshi restaurateurs handing out free bottles of…
HEIMIR HALLGRIMSSON declined to say today whether the Republic of Ireland should face Israel again in the future but said it was “a good question to Uefa.” The Republic is due to play Israel behind closed doors in Backa Topola in Serbia tonight, with the controversial game ending before the Star…
HOME Secretary Shabana Mahmood was accused of “missing the point” after she defended the Palestine Action ban last night. The Labour minister was asked about the thousands of pensioners held for supporting the proscribed group since last July on the Rest is Politics podcast. She claimed it feels…
NOVAK DJOKOVIC fought back from the brink to stun Alexander Zverev for one of his best results of 2026 and extend his winning streak at the China Open to 32 matches. The 24-time grand slam singles champion looked set to taste defeat for the first time at the ATP 500 event in Beijing when Zverev…
GREEN Party members passed a motion today to define zionism as racism at the party’s conference in Brighton. Members backed the motion which declares the Greens to be an “anti-zionist party” and sets out in its policy that zionism will be “treated as any other form of racism.” The motion passed by…
MYANMAR: Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals who were sent back from Malaysia arrived in southern Yangon today, despite warnings from the United Nations refugee agency and rights groups that conditions for return remain unsafe. The returnees, including 86 women, have been convicted of staying illegally…
IRAN’S top negotiator insisted today that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States meets Tehran’s seven-day plan to reopen the strategic waterway. The Nournews news agency reports that chief negotiator and speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said…
THE president of Sinn Fein said today her party will co-operate with any police investigation into the protest on Garvaghy Road in Portadown. Mary Lou McDonald said: “There’s no question with us co-operating with any process that will unfold.” The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said…