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Feb 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If the Russian government would be entirely indifferent to losing it, the spokesman intuition would hold. Otherwise, it may be questioned.
UEFA has very close links with Gazprom, but will also face broad media, civic, political pressure to move the final. The case for moving it is primarily symbolic, but UEFA might consider other practical or security related aspects of this
theguardian.com/football/2022/…
UEFA and FIFA and the IOC are different organisations but withdrawing a Champions League final over a military invasion opens up wider questions about hosting tournaments, such as the Qatar World Cup
My proposal is for a distinction between participation and hosting, both on grounds of sporting integrity & legacy. This 2006 piece on a proposal I made in 2000. (But jt would depend on the growing number of democracies adopting this principle in voting)
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Ill-timed tweet from UEFA and Gazprom

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The police find no merit in conspiracist allegations that the vaccine programme amounts to negligence, manslaughter or misconduct in public office. They note that claims about a criminal investigation are being used to disrupt vaccination sites. news.met.police.uk/news/update-as…
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Tusk heads the EPP, mainstream centre-right of European's Christian Democrats. His tweet raises the question of whether Europe's identity & its centre-right are assumed to be Christian. (Can non-Christians, whether atheist, agnostic, Jewish or Muslim be Christian Democrats?)
I think British centre-right politicians with similar politics to Tusk (or to his right) would not use "we are Christians" in quite this way. May refer to Christian heritage & traditions. Tend to be more careful re projecting claims to a faith-based common identity among citizens
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Feb 20
I am beginning to think that the PM may even be slightly better off (72-96 hours later) with a fixed penalty notice & this argument, than how it plays out if others are fined while he is not.
A fixed penalty notice may/may not trigger the letters and confidence vote.

If PM not fined, will be majority scepticism about decision & the policing. In this scenario, new photos released next 48 hours can damage PM (& police) badly.

With a fine, new photo impact much less?
If the PM wants to survive not 6 months, but to a General Election, he has to turn this around, with the public, not just get let off by the police.

That is difficult, but its arguably harder to do that & move on *without* a fine, than with one, given pretty firm public views. ImageImage
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Feb 19
Mitie has a £525 million 10 year government contract. Casual racist comments appear to have been frequent & report suggests went unchallenged by staff or managers. Nb, in a WhatsApp group which had 80 participants.
One of the worst bits of this news report is the management's response to the whistle being blown on the casual racism. It is not to investigate!

Due to *risk* of continued investigations, "the decision has been made to close the group and erase all its history". Image
This is the type of overt racism that seems to have gone unchallenged. Image
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Jan 8
If Lord Sumption wants to be historically accurate, and not to efface history, then he should make sure the Telegraph correct this misleading claim. Edward Colston was the Deputy Governor of the Royal Africa Company, a very major role.
The company structure of the Royal African Company. King James II played an active role as Governor but this became an honorific position for William of Orange after 1688 for the period when Colston was Deputy Governor
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This was the more pro-Colston of two draft plaques, in the debate about replacing the plaque left unresolved in the years before 2020. This draft supported by the Society of Merchant Venturers, the main 'defenders' of the Colston legacy in the debate
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Listening to the FA Cup third round on @bbc5live Quite a good group of Saturday 3pm games
Worth tuning in now for the last 20 minutes ...
Still 25 minutes to go. Cambridge, 16th in league one, are one-up at Newcastle in what has been the sort of cup tie that works very we on the radio
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