I don't know the details of how these things are decided, but I'm hopeful that our new PM will intervene to stop all three of the semi-finals and finals of the 2028 Euro championships being played in London. We can do better, like France did, and every other country.
@CerulaVinula@icelandcricket 1981 was great, but in 2005 the Ashes was between the top two teams in the world. In 1981 neither side was close to the Windies.
@brandan_buck@Kurt_Steiner In 1916, the British Prime Minister HH Asquith got back to Downing Street about midnight after visiting the Western Front. He was greeted with news of the Easter Rising in Dublin. "Well that's something," he remarked, & went straight to bed.
@BareLeft People talk all the time about investing in defence, but defence investment doesn't exist. It's a necessity, but defence spending is a cost, not an investment. As you say, there's no economic return.
No sympathy for sacked communities secretary Steve Reed from the Hartlepool Constituency Labour Party. Here's the back story.
In April, the local Labour-run council attacked Reed for not giving them extra money for social care.
The Guardian reported at the time: "Pamela Hargreaves, the Labour leader of Hartlepool council, told the Guardian that Reed said the government would not “reward councils for having high numbers of children in care” and then “dismissed” the discussion by saying: “That’s life.”