That’s an exceedingly good question from Rob Stewart, and one which needs to be answered.

That is correct. Trump has set a date to revoke Haitian protected status, and then set a date for the anti-Haitian pogrom to begin the next day. ICE must go. Miller must go. Noem must go. Even Vance must go. Their ethnonationalist mania gets more violent every day and is going to destroy America.

Interesting approach - it’s also known as extortion …

What horrible news. Hope he makes a full and complete recovery.

Carney has experience of dealing with bullies - he was Governor of the Bank of England when Boris was PM …

Why does this not surprise me in the slightest

More than slightly creepy that Usha Vance, Katie Miller and Karoline Leavitt are all pregnant …

Sounds as though they’re trying to put him out to pasture and hope we’ll forget about him … we won’t.

Sports commercially conflicted governing bodies and their lawyers can go on denying the causal link between repetitive head injuries and long term neurological disorders while the rest of the world gets on with trying to address what we are going to do about it. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Given what Willie Stewart had said, the coroner could hardly come to any other conclusion. It's all very sad. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

CONFIRMED: ITV secures exclusive Nations Championship TV rights for the UK. The broadcaster has also secured the rights to the Summer Nations Series in 2027 and the July Internationals and Autumn Nations Series in 2029. In total ITV will show at least 124 games as part of the deal.

As someone who knows far too much about concussion and the associated protocols etc, a ‘cooling cap’ won’t hurt; it may improve recovery time for some; it may alleviate symptoms but surely we should be erring on the side of caution and having players sit out for as long as necessary and then some.

Red or Blue, now is the time to email your senator. Tomorrow morning is the time to call their offices. I don't care if your senator is already on side (give them your courage) or if your senator is wholly useless (give them some of your fear). Make sure they hear from you.

To quote Churchill, ‘this is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end but it is the end of the beginning’ … (post El Alamein, 1942)

Until next time … 7 weeks for the legs to recover 🙈

Two days ago, the official White House account (ignoring the fact penguins live in the Southern hemisphere) published this image ↙️. Someone has since ... how shall I say ... developed it. ↘️

Pull the World Cup games in the USA. If not, boycott it.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

Not just Republicans but the Democrats who crossed the floor.

And he can still fuck off (Trump not Alastair Campbell!)

This is amazing, especially considering the temperatures there right now.

Any skirmish wouldn’t end the way he thinks he would …

Careful what you wish for - I wonder if California, Minnesota and various other US states would rather like independence from this shit show …

Nothing hits quite like a post ski tour orangina #valdisere

That’s hilarious - and arguably Yalta or Versailles was more prestigious. I’m sure Carney is gutted 🤣

Threshold has been met for an EGM 👀

Someone please tell him what happened to the Titanic … please!

Tell that to the guy in my last parish who still has PTSD and a limp from the IED that killed his mate, you draft-dodging coward.

Do these people just invent shit and hope it then that everyone acquiesces for an easy life?

Not that much of a shock given his previous - and I think he was still on a warning (he’s had so many I’ve lost track).

Under World Rugby Regulation 14.1, Y11 owning both the Ospreys and Cardiff, and both of them playing in the URC, will require sign off from World Rugby, and Ireland, Scotland, Italy and South Africa … Not convinced the WRU has taken that into account.

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

You know real courage would be a news station or newspaper just dedicating a space in their coverage every day for 1) an act of violent sadism by DHS goons and 2) the name, face and story of a NATO soldier who died in Afghanistan. They would not soon run out of either.

So Trump lied … there’s a surprise

That’s an ‘interesting’ take …

What Trump is saying here is that he doesn’t understand independent institutions/organisations or uncorrupted systems.

Wow - well worth a read

This says everything you need to know - they would behave like this, so they assume others would do. Bloody cretins.

Hope someone puts all of this to Bessent in Davos and waits for the reaction …

What, like the strategy he had for Venezuela? The non-existent, get someone to hand over their Nobel Peace Prize; steal some oil and stick the proceeds in a Qatari bank account strategy. Europe and Canada need to escalate this out of sight - punch the bully hard on the nose and tell him to fuck off

🚨BREAKING: Danish pension fund AkademikerPension announces it is exiting US Treasuries. US yields spike upwards AGAIN. This could be happening.

When you’ve overdone it at the Davos Welcome Drinks and stayed up chatting in Germany’s hotel room until 6am.

I wonder if Macron sent this to see if it would be leaked … if it’s genuine, now they have incontrovertible evidence that Trump cannot be trusted. Question is what do Europe and Canada do next …

Midday today now … imagine being an Ospreys player and being picked; imagine being Steve Tandy right now …

A lot of skinning uphill today meant this was very well deserved …

I really hope that someone on the Welsh Select Committee this week articulates this to the WRU. I really hope they make them squirm and don’t let them off the hook!

A penny for the thoughts of 15-year Ospreys veteran Steve Tandy...

No real surprise here - the ‘easy’ option to go down to 3 teams and they can quote the World Rugby reg which doesn’t allow 2 teams in the same competition to have the same owner. But … it’s only exclusive talks - a lot to be ironed out and Y11 hold most of the cards www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...