Gareth Charles

Cyn-ohebydd rygbi BBC Cymru. Former BBC Wales rugby correspondent. Views my own and not those of any organisations I may represent.

[Cheuph @cheuph]

I’m all for this!

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

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They really are not good at this.......

[Sei Williams @CapS45]

"But incompetence still matters in other ways. It matters for the choice of which clubs survive. It matters for legitimacy. And it matters for the legal route. A policy executed this badly can still be undone by its own paperwork".

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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky against Donald Trump!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

BREAKING: @Nigel_Farage's LeaveEU campaign passed confidential legal documents to Russian embassy. New from @peterjukes & me
https://t.co/OCCMOjw70M

[ZippiddyDo @ZippiddyD]

Kemi Badenoch: “The Conservatives don’t believe in a something‑for‑nothing culture”

It would appear that not everyone got the memo.

@BBCBreakfast @GMB

[Ted Smith 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 @TedUrchin]

Is it too early to remind people of what Jeffrey Archer truly was?

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

If you or I did this, we could face up to 25 years in prison.

But when Donald Trump uses the presidency for insider trading, Republicans just say, “well, he’s a businessman.”

The most corrupt president ever, and it’s not even close.

[Stephen Parnis @SParnis]

There is a reason why civilised nations have banned executions, & at the very least removed them as a public spectacle. Barbarism is never defeated by further barbarism. There is a dumb, arrogant brutality to this US administration, and we all pay a high price for it.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

At least one media outlet have grabbed the story

Barrister who conducted Reform inquiry after Channel 4 sting is ex-UKIP candidate

He has also acted for Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns in cases.
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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: INSANITY! A jaw-dropping ABC News analysis discovers that investments by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric have raked in over $6 billion in government contracts since their dad was sworn in.

And it gets so much worse...

Yesterday, President Trump announced a $6.6 billion investment with defense company Anduril Industries. The U.S. Navy will foot $2.9 billion of that bill to help build a new military facility. Not so coincidentally, 1789 Capital, where Don Jr. is a partner, took a major stake in Anduril last year.

This is exactly what it looks like. They're not even trying to hide the money trail. Here's how it works, time and time again...

One of Trump's kids, or a close crony, or perhaps even the President himself through proxies, dumps investment money into a company. Then, oh so conveniently, that company begins pulling in massively lucrative government contracts rubber-stamped by Trump. They take your hard-earned tax dollars and directly use them to balloon their stock portfolios.

There's an added cost beyond just the dollar amount as well. This kind of corruption destroys competition and disincentivizes quality work. Rather than awarding federal contracts to the companies that can deliver the best products or services for the American people, they're going to the entities with the most White House pull.

In the case of Trump's incredibly stupid, pampered, crooked sons, the Anduril arrangement is just the latest sweetheart deal. Don Jr. is also an "adviser" to drone manufacturer Unusual Machines which, prior to him coming on board, had not received any government work. But in October of last year, they landed a massive Defense Department order for 3,500 motors, with a possible order of 20,000 coming in 2026. Gee, isn't that an odd coincidence?

Don Jr. and Eric are also investors in the drone company Powerus. Again, the company had never received government contracts until they came on board. Then, in April of this year, Powerus scored a contract with the U.S. Air Force. It then scored another worth up to $90 million.

And these deals are just the tip of the iceberg. They have countless other investments. According to ABC News, the brothers also have "more than $1 billion across companies in mining, quantum computing and aerospace."

A spokesperson for the brothers absurdly defended them against the allegations of corruption—

"Don and Eric are experienced business leaders who have built and invested in businesses across a wide range of industries for decades, long before their father first ran for public office," they said. "Their investment decisions are based solely on their independent business judgment and personal convictions and they do not seek to influence, direct, or participate in any government decision, procurement, award, regulatory action, or other governmental process. Attempts to portray their ordinary investment activities as improper are a deliberate distortion of the facts."

Translation: We think you are stupid. We think you can't stop us. And we're going to keep using our father's power to make ourselves disgustingly wealthy.

This is what oligarchy looks like. These troglodytic nitwits have done nothing to earn this money. They were born into extreme privilege and have failed up their entire lives, just like their father did. While the vast majority of Americans are working hard at real jobs, struggling to even get by thanks to Trump's economy, his idiot sons are getting fat off corruption.

When we retake Congress, we need to launch a sweeping forensic investigation into every member of Trump's family! It's time for prosecutions.

Please ❤️ and share to demand a full Congressional investigation!

[4Yourinformation411 @4Yourinformati3]

So True!

[Donaldo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Stornoway_Cove]

Trump Factoid:

Where it began…

[Antony Alexander 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇧🇻🇩🇪🇪🇺 @aja1979]

The PM that destroyed the country

[Hawk-Eyed Rugby @Oldmangaming4u]

World Rugby, 2026 New Laws:

Don’t tackle high (head contact = card).
Also don’t drop a knee to get low before the tackle (now explicitly a penalty under the “knee drop” guideline).
Stay perfectly on your feet and hit the shrinking legal stripe between the sternum and the thighs, every time, at full speed, against a ball-carrier who can dip or jump.

Player welfare, apparently, now requires defenders to levitate into the exact legal centimetre.
Miss high and you’re reckless.
Miss low with a knee down and you’re off your feet. The sport that used to be about physical contests is quietly turning the tackle into a precision exam with red cards at both ends of the scale.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Melanie is correct…

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I can’t believe we have to say this, but the annihilation of two major American cities — more than 5 million people — is not a “small price to pay” for Trump's illegal war.

Neither are the 19 American troops and 3,000+ Iranians who lost their lives.

Our president is unhinged.

[Antonio J Martinez H @AntonioJMarti]

Leopoldo Emperador Altzola

ÚLTIMA HORA: Donald Trump acaba de enfrentarse a una de las descripciones más brutalmente brillantes —y precisas— de su abominable carácter que JAMÁS hayamos leído.
El autor Oliver Kornetzke no se contuvo. Así describió a Trump:
“Miren. El cadáver purulento de la podredumbre estadounidense embutido en un traje que no le queda bien: la sordidez de un estafador, la cobardía de un evasor del servicio militar, la glotonería de un parásito, el racismo de un miembro del Ku Klux Klan, el sexismo de un canalla de barrio, la ignorancia de un borracho de bar y la avaricia de un depredador de fondos de cobertura; todo pintado de naranja con aerosol y exhibido como un cerdo premiado en una feria del condado”, escribe Kornetzke. Ni un presidente. Ni siquiera un hombre. Solo la destilación enfermiza de todo lo que este país jura no ser, pero siempre ha sido: arrogancia disfrazada de excepcionalismo, estupidez presentada como sentido común, crueldad vendida como dureza, avaricia exaltada como ambición y corrupción venerada como evangelio. Es la sombra de Estados Unidos hecha carne, un ídolo de calabaza podrida que demuestra que cuando una nación se arrodilla ante el dinero, el poder y el rencor, no solo pierde su alma, sino que defeca esta obscenidad inflada y la llama líder.
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