News Round-Up
2 June 2025
Hamit Coskun Convicted After Burning Koran in Public
2 June 2025
by Will Jones
Transgender women are to be banned from playing women’s football in England following the Supreme Court ruling that trans women are legally men, as the FA follows its Scottish counterpart in bringing in a ban.
White men have been blocked from applying for coaching jobs at Premier League football clubs including Manchester United and Liverpool under a policy that appears to be a direct contravention of equality law.
Why are anti-woke Rangers fans given lifetime stadium bans but pro-Hamas Celtic fans get off much more lightly? It's because supporting Palestine is part of our elites' luxury beliefs, says Dr David McGrogan.
Elon Musk's father has confirmed that the billionaire Tesla owner has expressed an interest in buying Premier League team Liverpool.
Manchester United dropped an LGBT rainbow jacket that the team was planning to wear on Sunday after a Muslim star player refused to wear it, in the third LGBT Pride controversy to hit the Premier League this week.
Marc Guehi and Crystal Palace will be formally reprimanded by the FA after the player wrote "I love Jesus" on his rainbow armband because of a ban on "religious and political images". No ban on holy Pride though.
In the Brave New World of 2024 Britain, the Stasi meet the Keystone Cops in a kind of Carry On Kafka. But does the comic dimension of the authoritarianism detract from the moral outrage?
Hundreds marched on Wembley on Sunday for a teenage girl banned from football for asking a "bearded" transgender opponent "Are you a man?" as a second protest is planned.
Israeli football fans have been kicked and beaten on the streets of Amsterdam on Thursday night by a pro-Palestine mob shouting "now you know how it feels".
A girl footballer is facing a ban of up to 12 matches for asking a "bearded" transgender opponent "Are you a man?" in the latest case to raise questions about the FA's ongoing failure to ban males from the women's game.
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