Bedford Roughyed

His book 'The Places in Between' about Afghanistan is fantastic and really brings home many of the cultural differences between us and the Afghans, many which show the Afghans in a far better light than us in my opinion.

 

Completely off topic but I felt the book highlighted the cultural, tribal, religious, splits very well.  And showed how warlords and blood feuds are more important to many people.  Also showed how quickly warlords would jump sides.

Rory Stewart is someone who appears to of had a 'life' and seen areas of the world few dare to tread.  His books are pretty good too.

 

I wouldn't vote tory but he would probably one who might tempt me (voting for the person not the party).

There are big issues, some structural, some personal. 

 

That we don't have a true pyramid structure is beyond belief.  That we play in different seasons.  That we have different groups in control.  That we don't have the same basic rules.  That we cling on to 'amateur' more than RU.   

 

Never mind the different groups pulling in different directions with regards to scholarships, 'A' teams, U23's. 

 

Of course it doesn't help that we don't have a pot to ###### in.  That we let lots of development officers go when the contracts (paid with SE money) ran out. 

Thanks Tim2 but you are just on the border so don't count, sorry, the Eastern RL has launched its season and says concentrating on Under 15's so obviously only interested in Open Age

Primary Committee meeting with the RFL today (Tuesday) in Leeds lets see what comes of that

 

Not enough volunteers, no RL history, no RL in schools, one RFL staffer for whole region, geographic spread, appeasement of host RU clubs.  Just some of the reasons why its harder to do anything down this way. 

I'd expect that the head of the metropolitan Police has a better idea than most.

@labourpress: p.44 of Tory dossier says Labour will cancel cuts to the arts budget. We won't.

Labour don't get it....

Me too well actually i'm anti-labour

 

But jeez a tory in St.Helens thats as rare a rockin horse $hite

 

St Helens South has elected a tory since 2001...  

Heard on Radio 5 -

 

'Later we have Rugby Union, with Sam Burgess's Bath taking on...'

The problem with breaks is people drift away/lose interest. 

Well Muslims shot and killed all the attackers.

Muslims are currently fighting ISIS.

It tells you that Brand is a narcissist, and it hints at his world view - that everything he does is to promote himself.

 

For example, check out his Facebook page and he is writing about visiting a food bank in Canterbury prior to the Question Time programme.

 

He seems to be one of those people who has to broadcast it to the world when he does something like that, again promoting his own image of himself.

 

He is clearly a quite intelligent individual, but totally selfish, from what I can see.

 

Visiting a food bank is exactly the sort of thing he has been banging on about for the last year.  The whole 'don't vote' shtick is about the 3 main parties being all the same, so why vote if nothing changes.  He thinks the people should get up and do things for themselves, hence his support of food banks, the Focus E15 group, etc.  His whole thing is that the politicians wont look out for you, and you need to organise yourself locally. 

 

Selfish?  He isn't a saint but selfish? 

 

Yeah go back to Hollywood Brand, we have had enough of you supporting those families being evicted.  Such a selfish act, supporting some down trodden types.  Supporting fireman in their campaign against pension changes?  What a selfish act....

 

Burn him!

Radio 5 was referring to Fridays becoming Sam Burgess night...

Balence is saying 'the cut to X is justified as it allows the money to be spent on Y and Z'

It's not saying 'yeah but, yeah but, labour smell too'

I don't disagree with what you highlight as the various issues, we lack engagement for one. (This forum, facebook, twitter, etc)

 

We are in a cycle that I cant see us getting out of unless we get promotion.  We rob Peter to pay Paul to get a decent team on the pitch, if we want a better ground (ownership issues aside) we would have to accept a worse team. 

I have to say that I do not like funding peoples holidays in the name of charity, the ones climbing Kilimanjaro, Inca Trail etc.

 

Raise £3000 and climb Kili for free. (£2500 pays for your holiday, the rest to charity).

 

Don't mind sponsoring people doing these things when they have paid their own way.