“He Did His Bit”(@YLolfa) - “from a simple collection of shirts comes the story of a hero”(Eddie Butler) @rugbyforheroes, MA @DMUHistory, @RomseyRFC
Romsey, UK
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Kind words from the Mancunian #Maori, Mark Hudson. Reading ‘He Did His Bit’ while cooling his heels post @rugbyforheroes #newforest walk. #rugby @NewportRFC @WelshRugbyUnion @YLolfa @wrugbymuseum #sportshistory linkedin.com/posts/itsmarkhu…
“The bravest of the brave” Ireland’s Ernest Deane, MC. @irfurugby1 @RugbyMemorial @Rugbyforheroes @MonkstownFC @ICSHC #ww1
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*BRILLIANT*
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘_white, angry old man’s_’ advice to go back where they came from.*
Died #onthisday 110 yrs ago - @NewportRFC and @WelshRugbyUnion star Charlie Pritchard. MoM in THAT match v @AllBlacks in 1905. #hedidhisbit #ww1 #rugbyunion #sportshistory @Rugbyforheroes
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The Guardian has now been told by three sources that in March 2024 Nigel Farage told senior Reform insiders that if he were to resume leadership of the party, and run to be an MP, he would need to be compensated for the financial harm of giving up his City career to spend 20 years campaigning and standing for election again.
Insiders and donors were insistent that Farage needed to return and to take Reform into not only a 2024 general election but a 2029 one, too. He argued that would cost him £5m, the sources said.
No mention was made of security costs in the discussions about needing to replace lost earnings, sources said.
Excl: Farage said he would need ‘a million a year’ to stand as MP in 2024
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Currently the Clacton By-election appears to be a choice between
A) a novelty act with no real policies
B) Count Binface.
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Because Japan had bombed you and Hitler declared war on you. Don’t you have history books in the colonies?
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Oddly important for MAGA to talk about a UK with “unfettered immigration” and “through the roof” crime - when trends clearly in opposite direction….
The Mad Dog’s cycle ride brought his work for the RFU back to mind. His visit to the grave of @EnglandRugby captain Poulton-Palmer a real highlight. @LewisMoodyFdn m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4_hrn…
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NIGEL FARAGE - AN APOLOGY. thecritic.co.uk/once-more-un…
ALT NIGEL FARAGE — AN APOLOGY. Last week, I noted that since The Guardian revealed that he’d accepted a £5 million “gift” from a crypto-billionaire, the leader of Reform has carefully avoided places where people might ask him questions. In response, I find I’m now being shunned by Reform: when shame-vacuum finance spokesman Jenrick spoke on Monday morning, I was the only sketchwriter not invited. To some journalists, the discovery that they were no longer going to have to attend events with Richard Tice would be a source of profound relief. Such hacks might take it as a compliment to have so riled the not-at-all fragile people who run Reform that they enacted petty revenge. But I am not that kind of writer. Goodness no. So I would like to take this opportunity to say that I apologise for ever implying that Farage might be scared of questions. Quite the opposite: the leader of Reform is a giant among pygmies, a vigorously healthy man of tremendous moral and physical courage who has only
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I have no aptitude for that, Julia. Unlike your great hero, I also have no aptitude for encouraging race riots on the streets of the UK. Hey, each to their own.
Saddened to hear that the great @lionsofficial flanker Fergus Slattery has left us to go hunting flyhalves in the sky. Wonderful to spend time with him @rugby_club_compiegne in 2018 with @RugbyMemorial @rdjsport
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I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.
You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.
And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?
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This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:
Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.
The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.
It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.
While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.
This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.
Absolute honour to see her back in action!
Last week: @thenerve_news.
This week: the FT View.
We forensically tracked cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne’s donations against Nigel Farage’s crypto policy statements.
Yesterday the FT pulled out this same point in its main editorial & notes the similarity to Trump.
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Getting the band back together, Andrew?
Sex claims Tory MP gives job to police officer who was sacked over cocaine
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The wonderful Anne Applebaum explains the whole reason for Russian's invasion of Ukraine
Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."
That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.
Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.
Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.