Jon Morris

Italy's team is very settled and Brex is back. They're going to win. I'm going to be there and get horribly drunk on aperol spritz.

The hotel is still listing rooms available at double the price.

Discussing with other rugby fans - this behaviour isn't uncommon and isn't limited to Italy

At least we got rid of the "green crap"

Reform -1. IT'S WORKING!

In Germany there's the Federal Police force, as well as Federal Investigative agencies, but also the State Police forces, with each state delegating organisation of local police forces to relevant towns and cities.

Every few weeks there's far-right & counter protests here and rarely see "heavies"

I would assume so. A friend of mine returned from his family in New Zealand two weeks ago. Transited via Doha…

The referee for the weekend’s Italy v England rugby game has been replaced because he can’t get to Europe from Australia right now

For clarification, rooms were supposedly cancelled 4 months after they were booked. Timestamps show that the cancellations were made on the same day in November.

My interpretation - hotel sold rooms at usual rates and since we were super prepared we booked accommodation right away. Then hotel learns of sporting event with lots of English tourists coming so cancel cheaply booked rooms to sell at inflated prices (listed 2x price on trivago for example).

They say nothing can be done. Cancellation timestamps sent to guests (they presumably don't know we know each other....). When pushed they concede it "may be a system error" but what is done is done, no rooms available. Bye.

What do we do now (aside from scrambling for rooms)?

Direct guests not contacted. When direct guests get suspicious (it is Six Nations weekend and England are in town), they separately email hotel to confirm check-in/out policies and both are told independently that their bookings were cancelled in the system AT THE SAME TIME. rooms re-allocated

Italian legal advice: A hotel in Rome was booked, 5 people via 3 different bookings, all same dates. Two were made direct, one via Booking. Booking guests contacted by hotel in the platform to say hotel is closed for renovations on one specific date, ask guests to cancel, offered goodwill voucher.

I did once compare Starmer to Scholz. Which in hindsight was very unkind to Olaf.

Though if we are to lose to Italy then on Saturday wouldn’t be so bad (as I’ll be there in Rome and the atmosphere would be incredible)

Also to note - Mahmood is essentially saying that immigration policy should be made entirely for political reasons and those reasons should be what they think their ideal type working class voter believes. Quite literally a policy of pandering.

A party that is resolutely anti-bourgeois while being staffed and supported by the bourgeoisie is an intriguing and inevitably impossible strategy.

Anyway good luck attracting those Reform voters who hate you.

The biggest problem with the UK's political system is that colossal pieces of shit can write abhorent nonsense like this in a journal famous for publishing vile poison... and still have everyone come to their garden party because it's all a bit of a lark and all in good fun eh chaps wot wot.

The end policy is fine.

As a UK citizen abroad I know that I cannot trust the government, or rely on the Embassy to inform or assist with major legal changes. The communication during Brexit was appalling and what has happened now and how it has been handled does not surprise me at all.

As a Brit registered on gov.uk as living in Germany I got an email with a ‘this page has been updated’ message which I definitely didn’t ignore because the previous ones were about irrelevant changes to local policies in specific parts of Germany

Restore Britain's language is not just racist it's now indistinguishable from Neo-Nazi groups.

Yes I missed you too

Weird far-right guys

Legitimately had another good experience in BER

Yes British Transport Police I have noticed something out of the ordinary, my train is actually moving

Thanks TFL, really wanted to have to pay £22 for the Heathrow Express today…

Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

‘Reform’s immigration and deportation policies are completely awful and inhumane’ says representative of government planning to implement policies that are only a *little bit* awful and inhumane.

The relentless idiocy fuelling the fascism wave is so tiring

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

www.reddit.com/r/SaintsFC/c...

Two managers left in quick succession. The club went from 8th in the Premier League to relegation candidates. He hired the coach of Portsmouth, which angered the fans. They got relegated to the second tier, struggled there and by the end were in the third tier and on the brink of bankruptcy.

His company was used as a reverse take-over vehicle so the club could be on the stock exchange. At first he had a largely symbolic role and the club entered a period of relative success. Then he started interfering, wanting to install former England rugby coach Clive Woodward in the club’s running