@18stephenm @HeTalksRugby This ☝️
More investment doesn’t make the game better but imo jeopardy does.
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Ian
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Ian
@Tweedle65
Ex brilliant rugby player with very poor hand-eye coordination. Ex gentleman of the Royal Engineers #sappers. Member of the hoi pilloi.
Here and there Katılım Temmuz 2013
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@HeTalksRugby Don’t agree ringfencing bought all investment Red bull invested with relegation, Sale owner invested with relegation, Dyson been major investor for years but now top of tree wants his name in
Other investments great & hope it bring more, as near all below will become semi pro
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A lot of people on here slating Sale & to a degree it’s deserved, no professional rugby player should be allowing that scoreline at any time but let’s put some context around it, they’re absolutely battered by injury, add that to a Sarries team who have been off it for a while & desperate to end McCall’s dynasty on some sort of positive,
Also seeing people questioning the ring fencing of the Prem, take that away & you don’t see the investment currently coming into the teams, Bath, Saints, Newcastle & soon Exeter all getting cash injections, more will follow. The threat of relegation doesn’t stop players being injured & these scores from happening, investment though allows team to have deeper squads, better facilities, better infrastructure to help all that.
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Psychedelics? Yeah that's just great, let's make them less sober. You guys are so given over to the antichrist spirit it's comical... Tragic actually, that you're doing his bidding.
(1 Peter 5:8) "Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."
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Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell opens up about how psychedelic drugs can help veterans—and the impact they’ve had on his own life.
LUTTRELL: “You’re going to save a lot of lives with it. I’d like to say how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to go through the program and receive the Ibogaine.”
“When I came out of this, I felt like I had gotten my life back.”
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Channel 4 Dispatches went undercover inside the Financial Ombudsman Service @financialombuds. What they filmed should have shut the place down.
Their own staff said this on camera:
"I'm not proud to admit it but I've done it myself. Just taken a chance and just slung stuff through, with any old decision."
"You're more likely to meet your targets if you're not upholding them."
11,000 cases fell into a black hole for two years. Some of those letters said "I am going to lose my house."
@UKParliament demanded answers. Baroness Ros Altmann called it shocking. MPs threatened a full inquiry.
FOS said the footage was "not representative."
Nothing changed.
Fast forward to today. My own complaint against @rsagroup / @IntactInsurance is now being formally handled by Gary Smith @G8GWS of @MeridianLegals.
Gary is the lawyer leading the FOS Litigation Group, a group built on over 1,000 documented FOS failures. He is preparing a judicial review of the FOS.
My case has been submitted by Meridian as my regulated representative because what happened to me fits the same pattern Channel 4 filmed.
If you have had a complaint dismissed by the FOS and you believe it was handled without proper scrutiny, contact Gary directly at Meridian Legal Services.
0121 516 0675
@MeridianLegals
The full transcript of what @C4Dispatches filmed inside the FOS is in the comments.
Read it and tell me this is not exactly what is still happening today.
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Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant game in Bath.
Absolutely loved it.
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@Tweedle65 @ValerieAnne1970 @CadburyUK @UKLabour Tweedle Dee - once a Brit always a Brit, or does one’s culture not matter? I only asked a reasonable question: what have they done? They are currently sitting in No 10, they don't get there without votes
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"Bad news for hot chocolate lovers...Cadbury's Hot Cocoa contains no chocolate. Their 3.5% label is cut with so much Ammonia, it can't legally qualify as real chocolate."
"One of its ingredients is E471"...a legal food additive linked to 48% increased cancer.
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@mh379 @ValerieAnne1970 @CadburyUK @UKLabour Why do you give a fuck when your account is based in Australia but here goes
x.com/docrussjackson…
GET A GRIP@docrussjackson
🚨 What Has The Labour Government Done? I didn’t vote for @UKLabour in #GE2024 and have been highly critical of both Labour and Starmer. Polling shows pretty much everyone is dissapointed, and Labour has faced formidable difficulties in its PR - much of it self-inflicted. In short, Labour has found it virtually impossible to persuade the public of its achievements and virtually no-one is aware of any of the good things that have happened. This is partly because of mainstream news media, including a highly critical @BBC, but also because the Government has chosen to foreground measures which indicate that they don’t intend to behave like a Labour Government at all: e.g., abolishing the winter fuel allowance; cutting disability benefits; demonising and taking a hardline on immigration and especially asylum seekers; and reneging on its promises to reinstate welfare payments to couples with more than two children (almost all of them at least partially reversed, but after the damage was done). So in the interests of balance, here’s a list of things that have been introduced since July 2024 that for some mysterious reason, many voters aren’t even aware of: 1. #NHS and Health Put an extra £29 billion into the NHS – one of the largest funding boosts in many years. Delivered over 4–5 million extra NHS appointments in the first year (more than double the original target of 2 million). NHS waiting lists have fallen by around 230,000–312,000 – the lowest level in two years. Gave above-inflation pay rises to NHS staff and ended long-running junior doctor strikes. Recruited around 1,700–2,000 more GPs and introduced the first new GP contract in four years. Started free breakfast clubs in hundreds of primary schools. 2. Jobs, Wages, and Worker Rights Raised the National Living Wage – giving over 3 million people a pay rise (a full-time worker aged 21+ gets roughly £900–£1,400 extra per year). Passed the Employment Rights Act – the biggest upgrade to worker rights in a generation, including: Day-one protection against unfair dismissal for many workers. Ending exploitative zero-hour contracts (right to guaranteed hours and notice of shifts). Sick pay from day one for more low-paid workers. Better rights to flexible working, paternity leave, and parental leave. AND attracted £100–120 billion in new private investment, helping create more than 380,000 new jobs. 3. Housing and Renters Passed the Renters’ Rights Act – banning “no-fault” evictions so tenants have much stronger protection. Started major planning reforms to help build 1.5 million new homes over this parliament. 4. Energy and Environment Set up Great British Energy – a new publicly owned company with £8.3 billion to invest in clean sustainable power like wind and solar. Lifted the ban on new onshore wind farms in England and sped up renewable energy projects. Aiming to make Britain a “clean energy superpower” with cheaper bills in the long term. 5. Cleaning Up Politics and Tackling Lobbying & Corruption New Ethics and Integrity Commission launched in October 2025, replacing the old standards committee to oversee ethical behaviour by ministers, MPs, and public officials. Tightened rules on MPs earning from paid lobbying jobs, removing exemptions that allowed MPs to be paid for giving advice on public policy or how Parliament works. Stronger rules on political donations: Introduced the Representation of the People Bill (2026) to block foreign interference and hidden donations. Tackling the “revolving door”: Introduced rules to stop former ministers and officials from immediately taking jobs with companies they used to regulate. More transparency on lobbying: Reviewing the current lobbying register and publishing more frequent data; the PM asked the Ethics and Integrity Commission to carry out a full review in March 2026. New Anti-Corruption Strategy (2025): Published December 2025 with 123 commitments to fight bribery and corruption, including appointing a new Anti-Corruption Champion. Local government reforms: Plans for a mandatory code of conduct for councillors and creation of a Local Audit Office to improve oversight and reduce corruption risks. 6. Tackling Online Harms (including pornography and disinformation) Rolling out the Online Safety Act: Inherited, but actively implemented and strengthened by Labour. From March 2025, platforms must remove illegal content, including child sexual abuse material. From July 2025, new rules to protect children from harmful content (pornography, self-harm, suicide, eating disorder material). Age verification on major porn sites, ensuring children cannot access adult content. @Ofcom issued fines (£1 million+) for non-compliant sites. Extra protections against harmful content include upgraded cyber-flashing and encouragement of serious self-harm to priority offences and rules introduced for non-consensual intimate images, deepfakes, and nudification apps. Action on disinformation: Platforms must remove illegal disinformation; Ofcom set up an advisory committee to improve responses. 7. Tackling Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation (including Grooming Gangs) National Audit by Baroness Casey (June 2025): Reviewed group-based child sexual exploitation and recommended reforms; all 12 recommendations accepted. Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (December 2025, started 2026): Chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield with full legal powers; £65 million budget over three years. Accelerated police action and reopened cases: National operation reopened over 800 cases; Grooming Gangs Taskforce contributed to hundreds of arrests, including 597 in late 2024. New national taskforce and local support: Specialist taskforce for councils and police; new centre of expertise for best practices. Updates to the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy (April 2025): Better victim support, independent review routes, and stronger multi-agency working. But anyway, APART from improving the NHS and the nation’s health, making more jobs, improving wages for the low-paid and worker rights, taking measures to improve housing and life for renters, cleaning up politics and tackling lobbying and corruption, tackling online harms including pornography and disinformation, tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation, including grooming gangs, stopping widespread train strikes early and starting to bring rail services back into public ownership, setting up a new Border Security Command to tackle small boat crossings, paying compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal, delivering real-terms wage growth and implementing several interest rate cuts, starting work on lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty including changes to benefits, and, excluding the COVID‑related disruption, cutting net migration to its lowest level since before the UK left the EU in 2016 - APART FROM THAT, WHAT HAS THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT EVER DONE FOR US? x.com/docrussjackson…
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@ValerieAnne1970 Let's not drink @CadburyUK. Once an iconic British company, it has gone downhill since its hostile takeover in 2010 by @kraftfoods, overseen by @UKLabour. Can someone name something good that @UKLabour have done in recent times?
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Ian retweetledi
Hey Americans, I might be a know-nothing Brit, but I can't help thinking that arresting your president for raping kids might be a better idea than letting him collapse the global economy and possibly end the world. Just a suggestion.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: James Haskell joins Borthwick’s team as Senior Analyst, replacing Joe Lewis with immediate effect.
Further updates will follow in due course.
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@Tweedle65 @newstart_2024 Bbbbbwwwaaaaa
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Russell Crowe didn’t hold back when he shared this:
“Guys that are coming down to train me in some weapon or other… they do a lot of traveling but it’s all within the continental USA. And they come to Australia and they didn’t realize that other people have opinions.”
Then he continued with real conviction:
“It’s still to me the greatest country in the world — the United States of America. Absolutely. The greatest potentials are all here. But how it remains great is because it was founded on balance, fairness, and opportunity… not by taking opportunity away from people, but by affording it to them.”
He was reflecting on the contrast between American confidence at home and the pushback he sometimes sees when Americans travel abroad. His point lands hard: America’s greatness isn’t automatic. It has to be protected by staying true to the principles of fairness and opportunity that made it exceptional in the first place.
A simple but powerful reminder.
What do you think — is “affording opportunity” still the beating heart of American greatness, or has that foundation started to erode?
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Affording opportunity in no way means hateful malcontents can come go on welfare, open fake business and steal billions from taxpayers.
The virtue and constant lectures from the private jet class is a little annoying.
America did not become great because we played the fool to European globalist clowns constantly starting wars and trying to rule the world.
And nothing gets built by marxist centralized planners but grand palaces for themselves.
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@BamaSaltyMarine @MobleyGinny You fuckin gullible idiot. The orange orangutan has fucked the world
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@MobleyGinny I’ve seen the meanings! I only use it as- Make America Great Again.
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What so many fail to understand is that MAGA is not about Donald Trump.
MAGA is about America.
We the People were searching for someone, "anyone," willing to fight corruption and preserve freedom.
We found that in Donald Trump.
He is our voice.
You see, it's not a cult.
It's a revolution.
Make America Great Again!
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@RugbyInsideLine @Nik_Simon88 It will be good if the club can either confirm or deny this
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🃏 BREAKING: The Mail and @Nik_Simon88 are reporting that Quins' international hunt for a new Head Coach is over!
And that's led them to... Jason Gilmore. Who is their current interim head coach.
Rob Hunter to come as forwards coach, with Robbie Deans on a long-distance consultancy.
Not sure this is going to go down well.
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Joe Kent - August 2024:
“Most Americans aren’t aware… our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 150+ times by Iranian proxies.”
“These Iranian proxies… are 100% funded by the United States of America.”
“We’re funding the guys that are attacking our troops.”
“Why do we leave our troops there?”
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Ian retweetledi
Whoever stole my old man’s bike in the early hours at 4am from there garage in Waverley Road i strongly suggest you give it back you utter fucking pond life
Share away ladies and gents
#Gloucester
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Ian retweetledi
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
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River guardians do not want bribes that allow Thames Water to keep breaking the law. We want one simple thing: for Thames Water to put spades in the ground & fix every single illegal outfall within the next 5-10 years.
A little story to illustrate:
5 years ago I found an illegal outfall spewing raw sewage (with visible turds) into the Aldersbrook (a tributary of the Roding). The EA refused to prosecute, but I created so much fuss locally about it that eventually I got a visit from Richard Aylard, Thames Water’s ‘Sustainability Director’ who had an unflattering appearance in the recent ‘Dirty Business’ programme. Instead of setting forth a timetable to fix the outfall, Aylard offered the River Roding Trust (the entirely volunteer run charity I founded) £50,000 for “river restoration”.
I refused this offer, saying there was no point restoring a brook that still had raw shit going into it. I continued campaigning for another three years: taking numerous journalists to the outfall, getting Thames Water hauled before the local council scrutiny committee & relentlessly calling them out on social media. Eventually, after 4 years, Thames spent £1 million fixing the outfall & the brook is now clean for the first time in decades.
I have no doubt that if I hadn’t discovered the outfall in the first place, or if I had taken the £50,000, the outfall would still be putting raw turds into the Aldersbrook, a stone’s throw from Ilford town centre. It’s obvious for Thames that’s it cheaper to pay their critics to keep quiet than to do the work needed to fix the problem, but this is not what our rivers need.
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey
Thame Water offers to pay £25 million to environment charities and local community groups, but only if Ofwat allow TW to scrap their "outcome delivery incentives", over the next 5 years. In other words allow us to wilfully, deliberately, knowingly break the law for the next 5 years and we'll bug eNGOs a £25 million bribe, simply to shut them up. But would any of the eNGOs accept TW's blood money? I know at least one that would rip their arms off. londonstockexchange.com/news-article/A…
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@IamAustinHealey The ref's on-field penalty call lured England into all-out attack mode; changing his mind via TMO effectively punished them for trusting the ref’s penalty advantage call and left them horribly out of position resulting in France’s try. Would you agree with this @IamAustinHealey ?
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Just watched game again and 2 big decisions were wrong. Genge yellow card was debatable but it wasn’t a penalty try. Then the penalty advantage at 38-39 that was changed to knock on only by ref mid play Led to BB ….hard done by?
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“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
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