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Great episode. Love to hear the suggestions from Blakey in the midst of all the doom and gloom from County fans right now

Came across GB News ‘reporting’ on Charlie Kirk.

The host immediately turns it into left versus right, ‘woke’ gets the blame, complaining "the left are perpetrating violent crime”

Channels like theirs are fuelling the same toxic political atmosphere that is causing this violence in the US. Madness

Does Maga like the UK after all? First Trump, now Vance, are daring to visit Britain

Not really the key point of this article but allegedly Ellen DeGeneres is selling her £22.5m home after only living there for 9 months. That’s £2.6m in stamp duty, nearly £300k a month 🤔 on.ft.com/3UtdeqV

Local govt ends up being an area that comes out better than some during the SR:

Average annual increase in spending power of 2.6% per year in real terms between 25/25 and 28/29

Will leave spending power 2.7% lower in real terms than in 2010/11 and 15.9% lower when accounting for population growth

Well bravo regardless. I have been to three and the planning was insane, especially when a rail replacement gets thrown in…

I appreciated the Tranmere recommendation, I’ve been looking for somewhere to tick off next season so that might well be it!

Great pod as always, @1912exiles.com! Ollie, do you reckon you are going to all 51 next season?

Vance doesn’t seem to understand the implications of his government’s own tariffs… unherd.com/2025/04/jd-v...

More should be done by employers and government but how much is down to the poor quality labour market in Wales and other areas in the left-behind UK. When the local jobs are low pay manual/warehouse tasks, it’s inherently less accommodating of disabled people. www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

some interesting reading on zonal pricing for energy within the UK

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Image from Octopus. Seems positive but it will open a can of worms about the boundaries. Boston and Haverfordwest being grouped with London seems controversial.

Fascinating breakdown of the risks of driving, cycling, flying… the most eye catching: “The health benefits of cycling are so profound that over an 18 year period, someone who cycles to work and back has a near 50% lower risk of dying of anything than someone who drives.” youtu.be/vDhGHPHCgqI?...

The Spectator has its own DOGE, promising 'to stop the government splurging our cash'.

I'm sure there is excessive spending in the public sector, but most of the Spectator's claims are debunked with a 2 second Google search.

Huge win. But god I start to see Jardim’s dilemma picking an XI. Antwi has been poor all season but then today he turns in a decent shift. K Evans has been good all season but today he comes on and does little. I wouldn’t want to be picking the team.

The lineup is… bizarre. Evans deserves to play. Hudlin doesn’t. Greaves should have started. Either on for a tactical masterclass or disaster.

Shows a flaw in the Ombudsman system where, whether or not Cardiff Council acted properly or not, they act solely for the complainant and don’t seem to be expected to assess what impact their decision will have on non complainants. Crazy.

Radio Wales commentators didn’t seem to rate his performance. Not sure I saw much from him either but he was miles better than Hudlin. Positives are Greaves was outstanding and K Evans is great as long as he’s not defending. Still don’t see what Antwi offers, gotta play Spellman.

He doesn’t really have any footballing awareness. Just a tall body.

Please scrub the episode where I said anything positive about him at all. Going to be few options at back four v Swindon 😬

We’re in trouble. Brennan out probably for weeks. Jameson out v Swindon. No sign of Townsend. Hudlin invisible and no sign of CBR.

After 45 mins we looked like we’d be top half, now we look on for relegation

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Ed once again with the best take on the otherwise sensationalised and politicised coverage on UK debt…

I was expecting Antwi and Glennon to be the ones coming off. Really odd. Jephcott showed again why he should start.

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Diolch! I’m just praying Jameson doesn’t come on and kick a ball at a fan again.

Probably just forgotten what Clarke looks like, and my last memory of him was of a bit of a poor performance

On the other hand Jameson always racks up decent stats for runs out of the box which suits our style of play

This does make me shudder and compare it to the scale of cuts to youth music services where I went to school.

A sad violin (or piano) for the private schools complaining about VAT.

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Jameson and Morris in (if available) for me. Not sure how to make that work though as the only player l’d drop is Antwi.

4k at the weekend for @newportcountyafc.bsky.social

support up 4x in just over a decade. That’s something to be proud of. The same % increase as Wrexham, a division above with Disney subsidising their marketing budget.

I’m actually surprised that home ownership rates are higher now than 2015. And look at that 15% rise in Wales…

An artefact of the low rates era, which will over the next few years get cancelled out?

I'm trying to imagine how extremely difficult I'd find it to defend, for example, huge swathes of students who were demanding compensation from the government because they felt they hadn't had student loan increases properly communicated to them