Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Farage coins in £1000s a month for a few hours "work" yet he thinks the economic woes of the UK are caused by an 18 year old getting a tenner an hour working their arse off in Burger King.

Less than a small glass of wine a month. www.thecricketer.com/Topics/engla...

Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train news.sky.com/story/train-...

A little reminder that I'm over at LEEDSISTA now, doing the best writing about #LUFC that I am personally capable of at the time I am doing it and by paying £3 a month you can get three articles a week and I can afford to keep writing them ⭑彡 👇 www.leedsista.com/#/...

Farke said, "We don’t have to over-analyse the game," and I hope he was lying ahead of a week spent over-analysing, over-thinking and overall tearing up plans, finding a solution for a better #LUFC team. About #Leeds going to Brighton:

Why are official UK bodies still on X?

That’s 10 overseas ODIs lost in a row… #NZvENG I guess just maybe our players should get some 50 over practice or choose players that have? Because it either matters or what’s the point? 😬

But what if this is actually a brilliantly ironic skit by a superior entity about how unfunny Friends is?

I suppose if AI is secretly planning to conquer the world, the last thing you'd expect to find is a sense of humour

statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP

Insane. All this means is more money for lawyers and, as a result, less money for things like the prison service which blundered in the first place because it is strapped for resources. Piolitical convenience, economic nonsense and the fat cats getting fatter.

Is the UK addicted to “full independent inquiries”? Does it really take a years-long process costing millions to say it was a mistake to release Hadush Kebatu on Friday? Wouldn’t a faster internal process into what went wrong allow the government to *fix* it faster?

The last Runcorn MP punched a constituent. The new Runcorn MP is a racist.

‪Don't tell Private Eye but the shortlist included a CMC sub-committee member (recused), the CMC chair and a former CMC chair. 🤣 All books richly deserved their recognition so shut up at the back. With blessed relief, it's now time for 6 months non-cricket reading. Where did I put that Mick Herron?

This fascinating biography into one of English cricket's most unrestrained figures was a worthy winner of the @cricketmediauk.bsky.social Cricket Book of the Year award. Tim Wigmore's Test Cricket: A History (1/2) was runner-up in a very strong year (1/2).

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is Monkton Combe near Bath

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

There is no limit to the incompetence of cricket administrators #cricketworldcup

On the edge open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

🏏County cricket listening on @BBCSport shows huge rise❗️👂 🎙️More than 2.5 million listeners across the summer- 42% UP Men’s county championship 54% UP Women’s county cricket listeners UP by more than 450%💥 NEW 5 Sports Extra channels play key part 📱📻 Thanks #BBCCricket

The thing is this: we can all take the piss but they stood and won. Turnout in local council elections is about 30%. Have you stood? Have you canvassed? Delivered leaflets? Dared to speak up? Supported financially? Spoken out to anyone beyond your inner circle? Sorry, if not, your views will lose.

‪ Exactly. Maybe @theobserveruk.bsky.social should do its research rather than churning out the same tired old piece and dealing in regional stereotypes? I like the Clavane book but it's much harder to fight racism in parts of northern cities than it is in north London. Just a thought. #lufc

#FrankWorthington #LeedsUnited #LUFC (1982).

Absolutely awful. Just the latest example of rising Christian Nationalism in the UK, much of which can be attributed to American influence and financing.

Robert Parsonage steps down as Cornwall Council leader of Reform UK. days after deputy leader quit the party to sit as an independent. <puts on big foam hand with raised index finger> And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust, yeah. ~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I can't make up my mind if Fiona Bruce is a light entertainment host entirely out of her depth and slavishly following orders or whether she is part of the knee-jerk right-wing cabal restricting opinion for blaantly political reasons. Thoughts?

If anyone doubted that the BBC is deliberately not covering the Russian/Reform bribery scandal, those doubts should have been removed by Fiona Bruce interrupting to prevent it being discussed on BBC Question time last night. #BBCQT

A good year for cricket books. The Cricket Media Club award shortlist is: Stephen Brenkley – A Striking Summer Stephen Chalke – One Hell of a Life Annie Chave – Cricket Changed my Life Dave Lawrence with Dean Wilson – In Syd's Voice Leo McKinstry – Bill Edrich Tim Wigmore – Test Cricket: A History

My teacher wife says she has been watching Educating Yorkshire and reliving her 40 years of attempted Marxist indoctrination. 🤨 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm proud to point out that I did an English degree (when not many guys did). I reckon I've spread a little bit of happiness over the past 45 years. And I reckon maybe 50% of the rest have spread more. DO NOT be swayed by this view. Study what you want to study. Total philistines. #philistines

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

I'm proud to point out that I did an English degree (when not many guys did). I reckon I've spread a little bit of happiness over the past 45 years. And I reckon maybe 50% of the rest have spread more. DO NOT be swayed by this view. Study what you want to study. Total philistines. #philistines

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Ah, I've found it on the BBC. Man was hit with a ball, on the leg, as he loaded his car so all proper cricket is banned. FFS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“To demand 20m-high nets in response to a cricket ball allegedly rolling against someone’s ankle before a match even began is madness,”

This is dim, pathetic, low-risk council management from people who have no intelligent idea of the big picture. I am no Telegraph reader, quite the opposite, but when the centre left just ticks this up and does not protest then we are inviting a Reform government www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...

"International cricket might remain the pinnacle, but county clubs provide the building blocks of cricketing life. Yet the county grandees' permanent indecision has undermined its relevance and contributed to its decline" | ✍️ @davidkhopps.bsky.social

Thanks to Travelex for changing a 500 Euro note that I’ve been stuck with for 6 months! Can pay the painter now 😉 suitelanka.com

There is no limit to the incompetence of cricket administrators #cricketworldcup

Starmer's speech was merciless. It's time to make racists feel afraid again inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

I did my first England (A) tour with Rob Steen. He was a good and principled man and yet another cricket writer of that vintage who was a total one-off. This is a wonderful tribute towards one of cricket's most original writers - and people. cricketwriters.com/rob-steen-pa...

Memories of Dickie Bird from @davidkhopps.bsky.social

🏏 New County Cricket Newsletter. Pls share & enjoy 🟣 The Championship deciders - previews 🍐 Emotional Pears lift Metro Bank Cup 🟠 Surrey's record Champ crowds 🔴 Schedule set for confirmation? 🔵 Cricket is UK most elitist sport 🟡 Dickie Bird RIP

I still claim this as an unheralded classic for videos costing under 20p RIP Dickie www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp6I...

This has been going on for a generation. It is pathetic and the crooks need to be exposed (by younger people with more ambition than me) Media Release "ICC suspends USA Cricket’s membership; builds safeguards to protect athletes and Olympic aspiration... repeated breaches of its obligations"

Privileged to have written Dickie Bird’s obituary for The Guardian. An eccentric innocent treasured by so many. Every time I met him it was an invitation to rediscover my inner child. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

I ran out of characters on the last post. And now the world has lost another character. Dickie was an eccentric and one of life's true innocents. Everytime I met him it was if my childhood had returned. Universally treasured in Yorkshire where we do not always agree on everything. RIP old mate.

The last time I met Dickie Bird 😔: How are you Lad? Very good Dickie Are you still working? A bit. I’ve written your obit for The Guardian. Will I like it? You’ll be dead won’t you? So you'll never know. (To passing strangers, loudly ) I’ll have to trust him won’t I? I’ll have to trust him won’t I?”