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My predictions were correct. It’s a miracle! My sporting predictions are always wrong 😆

It was pleasing to see Eccles settling straight back into the team after being out for months. He looks ready to start when called upon. Overall it was a decent point.

You may be right but I think Kildunne and Botterman - plus our strength in depth from the bench - will be the difference. I can see it being tight with us then pulling away in the final quarter.

I’m looking forward to this afternoon’s match. With Kildunne and Botterman back we should overcome France by at least 15-20 points. The final against Canada should be a cracker but if we play as we can I expect us to raise the trophy.

Thank you very much indeed for your unpleasant comment but then I suppose smartarses like you think they are always perfect.

A lucky deflection restores Oxford's lead. 😆

'Cos I meant right! 😆

He will be banned for next Saturday 🙂

Norwich supporter? 🙂

That's the starting lineup that I would like to see. I think, however, that FL will want to ease Saka back in so I reckon BTA will start on the left.

I’m on holiday in Scotland and it hasn’t stopped raining since we arrived. I need cheering up. City to win 4-1. Please. 🙏

And Money.

I think the most likely outcome is that Rayner will be charged a penalty for making a careless error in completing her SDLT1 tax form. This is a civil penalty, not a criminal one for tax evasion, so it will not technically be a fine. Some may take the view that she is guilty of tax evasion but...

David Lammy is the new deputy prime minister and justice secretary. Yvette Cooper moves to foreign secretary. I wonder if Pat McFadden might be the new home secretary. P.S. Shabana Mahmood is the new home secretary.

With such a large majority I can't see it, unless the Labour backbenchers start to wrest control of policy away from Starmer and make his position untenable. It's not impossible, given the revolt over spending cuts, but with the current state of the polls I can't see turkeys voting for...

The field of competent candidates is a small one. My money is on Pat McFadden.

This is from her resignation letter: She was apparently advised by two of her professional advisers (one being the conveyancers who acted on the purchase of the Hove property, the other being presumably the solictors to the trust) to seek specialist tax advice but she failed to do so. It is...

Sky saying she has resigned her government positions and also as deputy leader.

The clever move, from the point of view of her own self-interest, would probably be to resign from that position but stand in the ensuing party election. She is supposedly very popular with the party members, in which case she would probably be re-elected. That would give her a stronger mandate...

From what I have read that was the purchase price paid to her by the trust for acquiring a quarter share in the Manchester house. It's not necessarily wrong but great care is required as a trustee cannot benefit personally from a trust. Dealings between the trust and a trustee would need to be...