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The Welsh are such snowflakes.

Tesco says sorry after running ‘meet the Lionesses’ campaign... in Wales

Supermarket pulls Lucozade’s England promotion for Euro 2025 from Cardiff outlets after shoppers describe it as ‘deeply offensive’

Tesco has apologised for displaying a “meet the Lionesses” advertising stand in a Cardiff store, which customers described as “deeply offensive”.

Wales’s women’s team will take part in their first major tournament at this summer’s Euro 2025 and have been drawn in the same group as England.

Shoppers in Cardiff were outraged by a Lucozade display that offered the chance for fans to meet the Lionesses, whom Wales play on July 13.

Noel Mooney, the chief executive of the Football Association of Wales (FAW) was one of several people to share their anger on social media, posting on X: “We are Cymru.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/06/20/tesco-lionesses-campaign-wales-england-women-euro-2025/

So no English people live in Cardiff then? No one in Wales could possibly want to meet the Lionesses? Pathetic grievance culture from the arch nation of grievance.

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Sadness in the Tyndall household today as two of my son's classmates were killed in a car crash a few miles from here last night. They had finished sitting their A levels yesterday and I assume were out celebrating. The two lads who died were passengers in a car and the driver has been arrested on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

Really sad and all too common. I do wonder whether there is something more that should be done to either educate young drivers or prevent them from carrying passengers for a while.

I'm really sorry to hear that - I saw that in the local news: 1:46am by the report, two hatchbacks IIRC.

There are various things bubbling under in the Road Safety Strategy, which should be out around now. We've discussed a few, and young driver safety is on the list, but they are being fairly "steady as she goes".

In terms of support, there are a couple of established charities that specialise in support of families & friends of people killed or seriously injured in collisions. Both have daytime helplines, and people who were bereaved by road collisions at their core, and do advocacy work, and have a lot of practical material. I tend to refer to Brake, but that is because they have more research stuff relevant to my particular issues.

Brake, https://www.brake.org.uk/ , 0808 800 0401, help@brake.org.uk

Road Peace, https://www.roadpeace.org/, 0800 160 1069, helpline@roadpeace.org

Both could provide speakers to do a lesson or an assembly, I think. But of course out there you are also fairly close to the Notts Constabulary HQ.

It is a shame also for the school because they have been going out of their way to provide lessons, speakers and practical sessions all around safety for young drivers. They have really pushed the boat out over the last few years (actually since the Girl's school KGGS lost a couple of Year 13s in an accident on the A1) and I don't think they could have done more.

On the other side of that, that means that their students may be far better placed to deal with the emotional consequences than they would have been otherwise. Good on the school for addressing it.

I have to say that the pastoral care at the school over the last 7 years my son has been there has been outstanding. It is an all boys school (Kings) and they really, really know how to handle lads, what the specific problems with them are and how to get the best out of them as well as how to support them. They certainly seem to pride themselves on turning out young men rather than just funneling them through the exam system.

I am quite reassured by the support you have received on here today.

Around a decade ago a girl my youngest son was at school with was killed at Storey Arms along with two young lads and an old lady in a second car. The driver was three days on from passing his driving test. In another similarly tragic incident a friend of the same son had been knocking on doors and running away on Barry Road in Barry. A householder caught him unawares and the lad ran away into the path of a taxi and was killed. Both incidents made the national news and the consensus on here was Darwin awards had been justifiably presented.

Be nice to think we have matured as a community and won't always go for the easy shock comment these days.

And yes agree entirely about the support.

5 planes from China have landed altogether in Tehran, now.

Nor part of Israel"s plan.

Just needs the IDF to shoot one of them down for the full 'brace'.

As The Official Keeper Of The PB “Brace”, the decision to deploy it is strictly my own

This is for very good reasons. If everyone chucks out Official PB Braces willynilly, that’s a recipe for chaos and hyperbole

No, a Brace is only deployed in the field after a long, cloistered consultation with my advisors, followed by a Zoom call with the King, the Pope, the project manager of HS2, and the lead archaeologist at Gobekli Tepe

If the emerald light glows green, a procession is made to Sgùrr Alasdair, in the Cuilins of Skye, where, in a cryogenic vault buried beneath 4 million tons of basalt and quartz, the word “Brace!” lies sealed in a crystalline sarcophagus, guarded by “the twelve Tories” - the last of their ancient breed. @HYUFD sometimes pops by

Then, the Keeper of the Syllable - for that is me - approaches the vault and lifts out the Word with platinum tongs, holds it aloft in a silence purer than a Japanese nun on Jersey, and then, finally, the word is typed into Ye Great Annals of PB: Brace! - and the universe shudders

You can’t just say it any old how

For the public finances I think it all went wrong with the EBSS:

• most people can afford a huge spike in energy bills, including me.
  
• there is a huge European war on between one country that grows loads of food and another that produces huge volumes of gas and oil. It's reasonable that prices go up, and it's not the fault of the government.
  
• We now have an entitlement society that doesn't just extend to a few council tenants but rather the entire population, in particular those owning property outright. The WFP histrionics is directly caused by this.
  
• we have an extensive and highly effective safety net. Sure, there are minor issues with it like weird tax incentives that require harsh sanctions to get people off the couch, but on the whole it's pretty good. It did not require a universal energy supplement on top. A top up to UC and Pension Credit? Maybe.
  
• there is now a complete disassociation between personal finances and the world economy, war and diplomacy, energy policy and so on. No one really cares about these things because they know politicians will buy their votes, and damn the long term consequences.
  
• Another example is COVID, where people at the bottom were protected from unemployment and rich people simply WFH and generated gigantic savings which fired inflation in the following years
  

Basically, I think we learn to take stuff on the chin again. Savings aren't just for holidays, but also global pandemics and war.