Jake Paul in a boxing ring facing off with a world champion sums up everything you need to know how sports are all about money now, Embarrasing for boxing that
@JackoRugby I don't like the eligibility rules but picking him goes against the rules as they are and agreed upon before the tour
Picking players representing England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland is not
@willgkelleher@AlexMLowe@TimesSport 2/3 of the back row having not played well in any of the warmups and leaving out in particular Morgan but also Pollock is a proper buzz kill
BREAKING:
This is an absolutely extraordinary story from @larisamlbrown
The British military is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death - and successive governments have spent years fighting to keep it secret using an unprecedented superinjunction
The data leak resulted in a secret operation that will see ***23,900*** Afghans flown to the UK in the biggest covert evacuation operation in peacetime. Most of them are here already
A total of ยฃ7bn of taxpayers' money had been earmarked to handle the fallout
UK government officials and troops were left exposed when in February 2022 a soldier inadvertently sent a list of tens of thousands of names to Afghans as he tried to help verify applications for sanctuary in Britain.
The database of 33,000 records seen by The Times was then passed on and one of the individuals who received it threatened to publish the dataset on Facebook. There were fears it would give the Taliban what amounted to a 'kill list'
A highly secretive mission, codenamed Operation Rubific, was launched to shut down the leak and stop the details of the breach becoming public.
The superinjunction โ the first to be deployed by the government and the longest ever โ which prevented anyone revealing even the existence of such an order, was put in place in September 2023
It has now been lifted after a two-year legal battle spearheaded by The Times
Yet at the 11th hour, The Times and other media organisations were hit with a new interim injunction that blocked the publication of sensitive information about what exactly was on the database, on the grounds of confidentiality and national security. The government argued the leaked list still posed a potential risk to Afghans
As a result of the superinjunction there has been no scrutiny of the leak, or subsequent policy decisions, by either parliament or the public for nearly two years. In one hearing, Mr Justice Chamberlain said it represented a โwholly novel useโ of superinjunctions and there had been no reported example of one continuing for so long
https://t.co/JDxnhCF0rE
BREAKING: Almost 7,000 Afghans are being relocated to the UK following a massive data breach by the British military that the government tried to keep secret with a super injunction.
The Defence Secretary said what happened was a 'serious departmental error'.
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UEFA allowed Manchester City and Girona to play in the same competition. They allowed Salzburg and Leipzig to play in the same competition.
And yet, even with John Textor out of OL, they wonโt allow Lyon and Palace to compete together in the same competition. Make it make sense.
UEFA confirms FA Cup winners #CPFC have been removed from the Europa League in favour of Lyon (6th, Ligue 1). An absurd decision that does nothing to strengthen financial controls or MCO regs. This from Sunday explains the tangle UEFA has got into
https://t.co/ghJdCmKML2
Red Bull, the City Group and INEOS all made relevant cosmetic structural changes to manipulate rulings and bypass football's loose regulations. See also: football club's selling their women's teams to themselves for accounting purposes. The sport is becoming increasingly absurd.
@Georgeeeee04@DebsiF@SaintsRugby But when Furbank is away with England or injured again, and Smith is unavailable, will just be Belleau and Hutch who will also be needed at centre with not so many options there
Hopefully with Thame but still pretty unproven at top level
Exclusive: Spurs close to finalising a stadium naming rights deal with a Saudi entity the frontrunner.
Advanced talks taking place. Dealmakers have put forward two companies, one a PIF subsidiary, and a secondary company unaffiliated. Legalities being explored so as not to conflict with Newcastle.
Nothing guaranteed yet, as Spurs have spoken to American companies as well, but discussions are advanced. Senior government figures have been involved in talks.๐ธ๐ฆ
@DebsiF@SaintsRugby Yeah the loss of GMC and not replacing Odendaal feels criminal tbh
Also think we're lacking at lock unless Prowse / Munga really step up