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Simply magnificent……how do I pin this tweet….4 wins out of 7 ….#NZvIRE #TeamOfUs #shouldertoshoulder #IRFU
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Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
Before he sang “You’re Beautiful,” James Blunt says he was ordered to overpower 200 Russian soldiers at an airport in Kosovo.
He questioned the order. Then a British general came on the radio.
It was June 1999. Blunt was 25, serving as a British Army officer near the front of a NATO force advancing toward Pristina airport. Russian troops had arrived first.
According to Blunt, they pointed their weapons at his men and warned them against entering.
The instruction he says came down from NATO commander General Wesley Clark was to “overrun and overpower the Russians.”
Blunt had armed troops behind him. The Russians were standing in front of them. Carrying out the order risked turning a dispute over an airport into a direct military confrontation.
He began questioning the instructions.
Then General Mike Jackson intervened.
At the Oxford Union, Blunt recalled Jackson’s words:
“I will not have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III.”
The troops pulled back and surrounded the airfield.
Blunt says that two days later, the Russians asked to share their food and water. The British response was that they could share supplies if the Russians shared access to the airport.
The wider standoff still required negotiations. It would be misleading to say one young officer settled the entire crisis himself.
But listen to how Blunt tells the story.
He calls it the moment of his life he would most like to be remembered for. Then, after describing the confrontation, he makes a point of giving Jackson the credit.
The famous singer is telling the audience to remember someone else’s name.
Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
The disgraced former mayor of New York, Rudy (I was just tucking in my shirt) Giuliani, has threatened to sue me for defamation over an interview in which I never said his name. No one even mentioned him.
I want to apologize to Rudy. Going forward I will be certain to say his name directly.
Rudy, you worked with known Russian agents and their proxies to spread lies about me and my father. Their names are Andrii Derkach, Konstantin Kulyk, Andriy Telizhenko and Oleksandr Dubinsky and more. Kulyk handed you a dossier filled with disinformation. You flew to Kyiv in December 2019 to sit down with Derkach, then went on television with him to sell his bullshit tapes.
Trump’s own national security adviser warned the White House that what you brought back was Russian disinformation. You kept going.
Then Trump’s own Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, sanctioned Derkach in September 2020 as an active Russian agent for over a decade, for spreading the same lies you are still spitting. Four months later, on his way out the door, Mnuchin sanctioned the rest of your sources. Kulyk. Telizhenko. Dubinsky. Eleven people and four media front companies in all. Not sanctioned by me. Not by my father. By Donald Trump’s Treasury Department.
And remember Vienna Rudy. In October 2019 you, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman had tickets to fly there to collect a hard drive, courtesy of Dmytro Firtash, an indicted oligarch who has spent a decade in Vienna fighting extradition to the United States. Lev and Igor were arrested at Dulles holding one-way tickets. You canceled yours the next morning. That was way before a computer repairman in Wilmington was ever a twinkle in your eye.
So please, @RudyGiuliani. Please, please sue me. Discovery will be a joy for everyone.
Oops! Looks like the wind has gone out of the sails of the tax dodging, #corrupt, #Cryptobung, #RussianFunded, #racist #Reform @reformparty_uk Seems like just banging on about immigrants isn’t enough! @LeeAndersonMP_ @TiceRichard @Nigel_Farage @SuellaBraverman @RobertJenrick
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 27% (=)
RFM: 23% (-2)
CON: 22% (=)
LDM: 10% (-1)
GRN: 9% (=)
RES: 4% (New)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via @Moreincommon_, 21-23 Aug.
Changes w/ 14-17 Aug.
Hey @reformparty_uk this your boy #ZiaYusuf ?? Seems ok to be a “traitor” if you’ve defected, just like the always feckless @SuellaBraverman and Honest Bob @RobertJenrick …is their kind of dodgy funded “treason” ok?? #Corruption #BobbyTheBung #Reform
Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
Ofsted don’t care about teacher wellbeing, they never have and never will. You judge an organisation by what it does when caring is inconvenient and every time, they’ve chosen the inspection over the person. matters, I’ve always said that. But you can hold schools to account
I like this analysis. It’s absolutely right. Baseball is a perfect example, timed plays, a material outcome every 30 seconds or so. Rugby is similar. Not so in football, long periods of essentially nothing happening, in many games…
the reason why soccer’s not a thing in america is because its entertainment payoff distribution has a mode near zero.
you can sit through 90 min & the modal outcome is nothing fucking happens. american sports solved this with guaranteed event frequency… e.g. baseball gives you a discrete resolution every ~30 sec, & american football every play. the floor is high even when the ceiling is low.
while soccer is a lottery ticket.. you occasionally get mexico/england, otherwise you get the snoozefest that was portugal vs spain.
Who would have thought that @FIFAcom under Infantino would be more corrupt than under Blatter?? 🤦♂️ #fifa_worldcup2026 #Infantino Tonight, we are all Belgian!! #Belgium
We are looking to raise some cash to support the repair of the rugby posts on the bottom field and @TomCurry98 has kindly put his signature to this jersey for us to sell and raise some cash.
Follow the link here to get involved, Thanks! ebay.us/m/kh9Ykz
Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
One of the most effective bits of political communication on the left I’ve seen in a long time. A message and a powerful messenger.
A tired old gas bag #relic trying to take on someone at the top of her game. Time to know when you are beaten you old fart! Facts matter, not tired, old grifts! 💨
Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
3 years isn’t long in jail is it, Luke? And what if you hadn’t done it? Like the 900 plus sub-postmasters that under these ludicrous proposals wouldn’t get a jury trial. Remember what the Labour Party exists for? It would serve us all good to think about that. Wrong, Luke. Wrong
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If you’re Irish, come into the paaaaaarlour 🎵 😃👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🏉🇮🇪 Fecking delighted 😀😭😭
Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
I am delighted to welcome Nadhim Zahawi to Reform UK. He will bring useful experience, such as claiming £6,000 to heat his stables and avoiding £3.7m tax by hiding £27m offshore and threatening to sue anyone who asked about it.
Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
1st XV Christmas cup is next Wednesday folks. A chance for our boys to retain their title! Come down and show your support.
Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
A racist, an antisemite, a Russian stooge, an election fraudster and a tax dodger walk into a bar. The barman says "Good evening Mr Farage".
Michael Rudd 🏉🇮🇪 retweeted
A moment worth waiting 18 innings for. #WorldSeries
