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Reply | Cardiff Rugby
at 21:47 23 Jan 2026
I’m 99% sure that rugby clubs have to submit their orders for tickets and pay for them well in advance of the 6 Nations, and if they don’t order then they won’t get an allocation in future years. I don’t believe there is a facility to return unsold tickets which means if the clubs can’t move them on they take a hit.
If you know anyone who wants tickets for a 6 Nations match, encourage them to go on to the Welsh Rugby Tickets Face value or less site on Facebook. It’s a site where rugby clubs who have tickets they can’t move on sell and individuals who are no longer able to go to a game sell their tickets. Just buy through the admin team as they hold the buyers cash until the seller has transferred the ticket to them. Then they release the funds to the seller and the ticket to the purchaser so buyers can’t get scammed by fraudsters.
Buying off the clubs ensures local clubs don’t lose out. |
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Reply | Trump rubbishes Chagos deal
at 21:37 23 Jan 2026
I wouldn’t disagree with you, but there are some who would. Just look how some governments are cutting funding because it doesn’t fit with their plans. |
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Reply | Trump rubbishes Chagos deal
at 01:03 23 Jan 2026
There are stories circulating that this so called “Board of Peace” is an attempt to create an organisation to rival the UN, but obviously with a more American and Trump centric thrust. |
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Reply | Trump rubbishes Chagos deal
at 18:12 22 Jan 2026
A number of sources are reporting that Badenoch had a meeting with Mike Johnson and that the Chagos deal was brought up in the meeting. Looks like Johnson has then gon3 off and had a word in Trump’s ear hence the comments. |
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Reply | Cost of Rachel's U-turns
at 19:05 21 Jan 2026
I agree with much of what you’ve said. I genuinely believe we need to wean ourselves of fossil fuels and reduce our reliance on unreliable regimes and governments, but it needs to be a balanced and blended approach. We should be extracting what’s left in the North Sea instead of importing oil from overseas, it creates jobs, generates revenues and taxes and helps with the balance of payments.
Looking in to the future and it seems that AI, cryptocurrency block chains etc all require massive amounts of energy, if we’re going to be in shape for the future we need to able to rely on a reliable source of cheap energy.
We’re well behind the curve and have been left down by successive governments over a long period. |
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Reply | FA YOUTH CUP 4th Round
at 23:23 20 Jan 2026
Fair point.
If the club are serious about keeping them, they’ll need to make a quality pitch to the boys and their parents and that is likely to include Matos getting involved. Plenty of kids have moved on to bigger clubs and flourished, but more have crashed and burnt. Quality coaching, sincerity and a proper developmental plan could go a long way to getting this over the line. |
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Reply | Minneapolis
at 22:51 20 Jan 2026
It depends on whose stats you want to believe. Wall Street Apes is a site associated with posting false, AI and it is associated with far right postings.
Meanwhile, if you go to the horses mouth as it were and actually check the facts, it’s apparent that on the 20th of December 2025 the DHS reported that 605,000 were deported from the US last year and that a a further 1.9m left voluntarily with a free flight and $1,000.
Just because something is posted on Twitter and amplified by the likes of Elon Musk doesn’t make it true. It’s a classic disinformation tactic to mislead.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/ [Post edited 21 Jan 10:34]
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Reply | Cardiff Rugby
at 17:54 20 Jan 2026
They won’t do that because they want to get shot of 1 region and save the money they’d be paying out to the Ospreys. Allowing someone else to buy the Ospreys would put them back at square 1, unless the Ospreys were to join the Premiership and get their funding elsewhere. |
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Reply | Cardiff Rugby
at 08:12 20 Jan 2026
If the Ospreys fancied a crack at the Premiership I’m sure the Swans would allow them to continue the ground share arrangements, but I think the Ospreys owners are being offered a deal they can’t refuse to acquire Cardiff, thereby removing the threat of Y11 suing the WRU.
It’s done and dusted, the WRU have been called to Westminster, but what is that going to achieve? It’s a PR exercise. The WRU will answer a few questions, say they’ve got no money and that’s about it. Are Westminster going to give them more money - don’t think so. It’ll be the same with the Senedd, can we expect them to commit money to the rugby in a direct funding package to the WRU or Ospreys - not likely. |
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Reply | Us versus THEM
at 21:39 18 Jan 2026
Police forces can use their income from the public purse to pay for solicitors, but I’m pretty sure the actual police officers themselves will have their bills picked up by the Police Federation while police staff, ambulance personnel etc are represented by lawyers hired by the staff association or Union. |
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Reply | The Truth Comes Out on Maccabi Fans Ban
at 18:46 16 Jan 2026
His salary is around £220k, I think the £15k per month is a little on the high side and I’d have thought it’s nearer £10k.
Some of the hard of thinking saying he should be stopped from accessing his pension, he retired a few years ago and came back in to policing so he has had access to his pension for years. There is no mechanism to stop him getting his pension.
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, added: “Craig Guildford should have been fired by the Labour police and crime commissioner – but he was too weak to act. Craig Guildford’s move to retire is simply not good enough.”
The only way Guildford could be sacked or required to resign is after a process which would take several months to run its course is initiated and that’s if they felt that was the right outcome.
My view is he had to go and this is the quickest way of resolving the situation. In terms of the CC, West Mids can move on, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions. The CC ultimately carries the can, but there are others under him who’d have a big part to play in this fiasco and they need need to be held to account. |
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Reply | Minneapolis
at 21:36 15 Jan 2026
“ One thing you may spot as she engaged forward gear is that the rear wheels were spinning before the car gained traction, suggesting hard acceleration.”
Maybe, but equally it could be on account of the ice on the road. |
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Reply | Robert Jenrick
at 19:10 15 Jan 2026
That’s a fair point, but these defections and the Damascus type conversions say a lot about the character of some of these politicians, shallow types whose primary focus is serving their own ambition. |
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Reply | The Truth Comes Out on Maccabi Fans Ban
at 19:48 14 Jan 2026
He retired in 2024 for 1 month before returning to his post, I suspect his pension is sorted so if he goes again it’s not like he’s losing anything.
From where I’m sitting his position is untenable and he has to go, but I think there’s a lot more we need to know to be able to get to the bottom of it. It may be that his underlings kept the AI bit from him, but how on earth did a police service produce a report based on AI which was factually incorrect? The Chief Constable has to carry the can, but there’s a few more people in the West Mids Police who have some pretty serious questions to answer.
One thing I really disagree with is that the Home Office are now looking at reintroducing powers to enable the Home Secretary to dismiss Guildford, whether she has confidence in him or not that should be a matter for the local Police and Crime Commissioner, we can’t have government politicians directly intervening like she proposes to. I don’t agree with PCC’s but it’s his job to oversee the delivery of the policing service in his area and not the Hone Secretary. |
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Reply | UK NET IMMIGRATION
at 22:37 12 Jan 2026
I think today’s figures are a welcome step in the right direction, we’re not where I’d like us to be, but I think these figures are a big improvement on previous year’s numbers. There’s more work to be done to reign the figures in and get high caliber of the people coming, but the numbers are coming down.
British citizen emigration peaked in 2021 at 283,000, it then hovered around todays figure for the last 4 years. The number of returning Brits increased by 83,000 up to 143,000. What is noticeable is that EU citizen emigration is increasing as more lave the country.
There’s more work to be done, but things are much moving forward. The current government have further tightening criteria’s up, increased the length people have to wait for particular status, introduced a ban on DRC citizens obtaining visas (and proposed similar moves against other countries and increased removals. It’s not all rosy in the garden, but it’s better than it’s been for a while with hopefully more to come. |
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Reply | The Truth Comes Out on Maccabi Fans Ban
at 23:32 8 Jan 2026
The financial penalties for not hitting the target were massive, if a force failed to achieve 75% of its uplift target they lost the entire uplift funding, the Met were about 1100 short and lost over £7m.
A couple of guys I know from down here went up to London and joined the Met, but recruiting from outside London stopped in 2014 when the Met was under pressure to be more reflective of its population. The recruiting local policy was suspended in 2018 but reintroduced in 2020 and then suspended again in 2022. In many parts of the U.K. Forces are having big problems recruiting staff and when they do get them through the door they are leaving in unprecedented numbers.
Boris’s policy of increasing the number of cops was well intentioned and intended to reverse the damage caused by the Cameron and May governments, but once again it was a policy that was poorly executed and senior officers made an even bigger mess of it.
The Met should never have allowed people in without vetting them properly. We’ve seen sex offenders get in, who else has infiltrated our services? |
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Reply | Iran is falling to pro democracy protestors
at 22:56 8 Jan 2026
There’s a long way to go before there regime change in Iran but the people are having their say.
The IRGC, police and army are a pretty formidable outfit when they’re up against civilians and I expect they’ll crack down hard, but if the people can get a he’d of steam up and support to fight back against the government who knows what can happen. The Kurds in the north and west eon5 get pushed around too easily and they just might get a bit of backing from over the border. If the regime falls, Putin loses a big ally. |
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Reply | The Truth Comes Out on Maccabi Fans Ban
at 22:04 7 Jan 2026
Following the Winsor Review in 2011 in 2014, the government (Theresa May was Home Secretary) introduced a graduate fast track Constable to Inspector where a recruit would move from cop to Inspector in 2 years and they also introduced a direct entry to Supt programme. Absolutely mental decisions.
As has been said by other posters, how on earth someone can be a cop on the beat for a couple on months before starting to climb the ladder and “lead” others is beyond ridiculous. In my experience the best leaders are those who with substance, knowledge and excellent interpersonal skills with a hefty dollop of common sense. It’s crackers that ministers and senior civil servants ever introduced this. I feel the same about Direct Entry Supts too.
The Conservative governments of the 2010s onwards made some awful decisions regarding criminal justice and introduced a lot of disastrous changes. |
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