during the Bank Holiday weekend, calling for big tech companies to tackle abuse and discrimination on their platforms. Players, clubs, athletes, pundits, and a number of sporting bodies joined the four-day silence on Friday, while football clubs changed their Twitter feed icons into a blacked-out version of their logo. In response to the sustained discriminatory abuse received online by players and others connected to the game, English football will unite for a social media boycott from 15:00 BST on Fri 30 April to 23:59 BST on Mon 3 May Reacting to the boycott, councillor Stuart Carroll, lead member for adult social care, children’s services, health, and mental health, deemed this stance as a ‘relative success’, but thinks social media giants, like Twitter and Facebook, need a ‘deep clean’.
This is what you have been writing to us about this week. Last week football supporters across the United Kingdom were united in fury at the emergence of the proposed European Super League, a project to hijack the game to the advantage of a few super-rich clubs and the disadvantage of everybody else. Credit to the politicians, and notably to Mr Johnson, for seizing the bull by the horns and threatening to do all in their power to thwart the venture. One thing puzzles me. On her Twitter account, Joy Morrissey, MP for Beaconsfield, announces that she was present at a meeting last week where the Prime Minister and Oliver Dowden, sports minister, met various representatives of the sport to discuss its future.
Prince Philip was the longest-serving consort in British history would have celebrated his 100th birthday in June. The duke dedicated decades of his life to royal duties before retiring from his royal duties in May 2017 when he reached the age of 96. He was married to the Queen for more than 70 years and had been self-isolating with the Queen as part of a HMS bubble at Windsor Castle. The sad news has brought in tributes from all over the country including Bucks MPs. Wycombe MP Steve Baker said: It is with great sadness that we learn Prince Philip passed away today.
Celebrities, politicians and high-profile figures are paying tribute to the life of Prince Philip.
The Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and Britain s oldest and longest-serving royal spouse in 10 centuries died Friday morning at Windsor Castle, according to a statement from Buckingham Palace. He was 99. It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the statement read. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed feelings of grief and gratitude on Twitter, remembering Philip as “highly respected.”
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