Rule No. 5: Do not blow off intelligence briefings at the embassies.
A police spokesperson told the South Wales Argus it was one of a number of local venues being used for various activities, including booking officers on and off duty, briefings, and canteen facilities.
Via a combination of an odd approach to PR, off record briefings and a fairly chatty CEO in the shape of Daniel Ek, Spotify has been threatening to launch in the US since 2009.
The network's reporters now routinely joust with Mr. Trump's press aides, and Jim Acosta, a White House correspondent, recently denounced the administration's use of off-camera briefings as an affront to American values.
He instituted the highly contentious practice of holding off-camera briefings, less so to snub reporters than to avoid Mr. Trump's critiques of his performance, according to one of Mr. Spicer's friends.
In the past few weeks, UK officials have dismissed and belittled Dublin's concerns in off-record briefings, while senior MPs have accused the country of exaggerating the border issue or fabricating it altogether.
The skill of a political journalist remains partly to get to know political insiders, particularly the wags who calculate they have a political motive for delivering off-record briefings about manoeuvrings in the so-called corridors of power.
Concerns have also been raised about the growing prevalence of off-camera briefings at the White House, which in previous administrations have typically been reserved for when the press secretary is travelling with the president and must brief reporters aboard Air Force One.
The White House Correspondents Association has blasted the change to off-camera briefings.
In response to a question about the off-camera briefings, and amid reports that Spicer is searching for his own replacement, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon last week offered this explanation: "Sean got fatter".
