TMS putting out some great stuff in Ashes build-up. Loved this one with Michael Vaughan as I did last week’s with Stuart Broad. Interviews with players who eat and sleep the game and think about it at a depth rarely seen in other sports. Also incredible recall of events over two decades ago.

Yes, and when faced with choosing a leader, these dangerous, anti-American radicals chose...Sleepy Joe.

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

We need a rapture tracker like the Santa tracker. He must be in Australia by now and making His way across.

No shit headline of the day.

A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.

One of the few on the Bronx River Path this morning not wearing a weighted vest. And most using it as an excuse for walking/running slower.

When NFL teams just play other NFL teams in pre-season, do any NFL fans ever say, hang on, why aren’t there other teams to play?

The Oval packed on a Monday morning for the 25th day of the series says it all. I really wonder if there’s a future for white ball cricket.

The unveiling of an all-start game logo. American sports reach new levels of ridiculousness.

Unbelievable.

Great to finally have an Official Commercial Interiors Partner onboard.

One thing about the new ethno-nationalists is they are, just at base, isolated from the culture of their own country. They have no acquaintance with our national game or indeed any major British sport. They have clearly spent little time in any of the UK’s constituent countries other than England.

MAGA is just man-children, man-children everywhere.

This is the season of excited to get started, can’t wait to get going.

Only way to see Trump is as an easy mark. Evangelicals spotted it first, all sorts of dark domestic forces see it now - the TradCaths, anti-vaxxers, crypto scammers, pro-natalist creeps, techno-feudalists, etc. And internationally, Putin and Netanyahu. So easily manipulated, such a useful idiot.

A playfulness!

One thing that’s clear in all this is that Americans are terrible at chanting. Sports chanting, political chanting, it’s all dreadful and they/we should give it up.

Reading about the Irish government's investment in Abbotstown in north-west Dublin as the new home for Ireland cricket, including a 4,000-seater stadium, and realising the lost opportunity for NI.

Becoming increasingly difficult to support this football club.

No Kings protest crowds were fabulous and delighted they happened but we're notoriously terrible at putting crowds in context and measuring against numbers not there. It's a surprise to no-one that there is strong anti-Trump feeling in the US. As yet unclear whether a single swing voter joined in.

Baseball fans need to watch more cricket.

Ukrainians sticking it to the Russians 🤝 GAWA in Paris 2016.

Preach.

🔥 @ezraklein.bsky.social : “Yes I’d like a Dept of Government Efficiency— but I’d also like a government led by people with a humane vision of the future… it’s not just that (Elon/Trump/DOGE) are trying to break the government + corrupt it, it’s that their vision of the future is terrible.”

Trai Hume: Irish League to Premier League in three years.

Crawley will fail against India and Australia and so this start to the summer is good for no-one.

Cosplay meets reality.

Bravo.

I’m pretty confident the Qatari taxpayer will make their feelings known and put a stop to this, or show their anger at the ballot box.

No UUP-DUP super alliance in the options.

Some GAA players upset they’re not allowed to wear what they want. Wait to they hear about the mandatory political beliefs.

Look at that photo. My first cricket hero and the reason I still look out for the Somerset score.

The thing about Kneecap is their crushing unoriginality. It’s all yesterday’s slogans, yesterday’s wars, cosplaying their fathers’ 1980’s.

Struggle to think of a politician who better embodies the moment than Mark Carney. A victory for fact, reason, competence and good faith politics.

DPRK soldiers being sent to die there have likely never even heard of Ukraine.

New ownership but The Onion stays firmly in the territory of nearly funny. Tip: just look at UK equivalents and copy what they do.

Try not to concede, hopefully nick one, drag it over the line. Language of#winners.

Horrendous, we shouldn't look away.

Has a grubbier headline ever been written?

This is so back foot, so pathetic. Never let your opponent frame you (especially when the framing is bullshit).

The no socks business attire nonsense has to end. Hopefully this is what ends it. A fashion trend meant only for skinny <22 boys from Italy and France.

Apart from some unnecessary and distracting working-class character slander, this is excellent and worth reading.

World Snooker Championship 2025 Round 1 competitors: - England x 13 - China x 10 - Wales x 4 - Scotland x 1 - Northern Ireland x 1 - Australia x 1 - Iran x 1 - Belgium x 1

Actually disgraceful that a FT club goes to Dungannon in such an important end-of-season game (for us; meaningless for them) and loses. Total implosion these last 6-8 weeks. Don't care how much the players socialise in their free time.

Watching Libertadores highlights and my new favourite stadium in South America: Estadio Tigo La Huerta, home of Club Libertad of Paraguay.

There's a phenomenon right now that the moves are so naked, so extreme, that people's normality bias simply doesn't allow them to believe they are happening.

This is where we need a media that persistently and unfailingly asks them why.