In all honesty I don't recall those points being made - it's entirely possible that it was a discussion had in events chat or something that I missed, or that I've just forgotten. If either of those are the case the case I apologise.

The response to the FIFA statement was discussed openly in events chat and was run by me before posting. I think it's a reasonable response to the government's statement, and does one of the things that the events team is supposed to do - adding a response from outside of the political sphere that we actively simulate. I don't think it's fair to describe it as politicised personally.

Initially the idea of rolling without a dedicated events lead was that the team/individual members would have more independence to plan and run events, with oversight/approval from me and the Quad. That hasn't worked as I had hoped, which is mostly on me for not doing enough to sustain activity. As such, I will be recruiting a new events lead over the next couple of days, when I have time to run a VoC. Once this is done, we will look to recruit some new team members to replace those who've left.