I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.

This does not make Tribe ineligible for Jersey, but he's obviously on England's radar.

Kier Starmer urges you to choose being punched in the face over being kicked in the balls.

Obviously it’s not a full strength West Indies side, but this is significant for Nepal. www.espncricinfo.com/series/nepal...

In the absence of any concrete action against the cricket board which is in flagrant breach of its requirements, at least the ICC is all over symbolic action.

Read the whole thread, it's long but well worth your time. Wanted to single this post out because I think that this is the best way of preventing a Reform government. Yes they'll have more seats than now but they'd be highly unlikely to get a majority and possibly wouldn't even be in a coalition.

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

So we're going to force brown people to do unpaid labour against their will? The british do have previous on this one, but I think we gave it another name.

Give it six months and it'll be his immigration policy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today in cricket, one of the 2003 World Cup semi finalists lost to Malawi.

Ah yes, Jesus never broke any Roman imperial laws, he was publicly executed for unrelated voluntary execution reasons

Nepal, who didn't qualify for the Asia Cup, have today beaten the West Indies in a T20I at Sharjah. Associate cricket is strong.

Noah catalogued every living animal in pairs and was hyperfocused on boats. Don’t tell me autism started with Tylenol.

I.e. with a landslide victory - please offer us more than “but we’re not Nazis”

Those Protestants, up to no good as usual

2005 Kier Starmer would take 2025 Kier Starmer to court.

They've lost the 9yos

I get that the world wants me to use an AI assistant, and that my refuals is a small, futile act of resistance... But trying to get me to use an AI assistant on FUCKING NOTEPAD is obscene. It's the thing you use when even Word has too much formatting. Just piss off!

"We"? Thalidomide was licensed from 1957 to 1961, when it was taken off the market. That 3 years before Farage was born, and it happened when the "light touch" regulation he supports was in place.

And tomorrow marks the anniversary of the start of the media questioning the future of international cricket. (This isn't a joke)

This is the equivalent of saying "we should control the length of skirts because short skirts encourage rapists".

No nation has been suspended by the ICC more than the USA and no other suspended nation gets treated like they do during their suspensions.

"instrument of neo-colonialist repression" works better as a description of the other ICC.

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Yep; very hearing Newsbeat on Radio 1, a station aimed at the younger demographic, leading with this as well - especially the way news bulletins tread this very 'proper' line, rather than just coming out and saying 'you may have heard that Trump is spouting absolute shit again, don't listen to him'

Amy Hunter hopes to play in the Olmpics, Belfast born player doesn't specify who for!

The Champions of Free Speech are here to protect you from the Forbidden Knowledge

I hope @ottoenglish.bsky.social will forgive me for screenshotting his short thread. It is just perfect, so much so that I thought it should hit it one single blow, with no scrolling involved.

I’m sick of people posting facts and graphs about how Nigel Farage’s numbers are wrong. Fascists don’t care about facts

Someone asked me to help investigate their haunted sofa. Classic upholstergeist.

Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled - The New Disney #Trump #JimmyKimmel #Disney #LUBACH

Feels like the ICC are doing a dismal job of promoting the Women's Cricket World Cup (most cricket media's focus seems elsewhere). The longest running World Championship in cricket is being co-hosted in the game's biggest market, but beyond the odd generic, social media post, you'd hardly know it.

Former Cricket Ireland CEO Warren Deutrom has a new job. He will be the one in charge of postponing the European T20 League next year. www.carrickfergustimes.co.uk/sport/etpl-s...

Correct. Which is why some of the women who've bought into the transphobia in sport narrative really surprised me (hi, Martina Navratilova)

"your spinner looks like he's straightening his arm during delivery" Don't look too closely he's got 17 fingers on one hand and three elbows on the other

I would so watch "sherlock holmes played by a dalek and nobody ever draws attention to it"

It says "sign the South African under 18s team again"

Zack Polanski might actually do really well pursuing this strategy of just asking British politicians a follow up question

Genuinely never understand why when a journalist is banned from one of these things all the questions aren't about that.

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

centrists: a third party can’t win under fptp so you have to vote labour. centrists: if you don’t vote labour then reform, a third party, might win.

Is "Dutch bowler banned for recreational drug use" really that surprising? www.cricketeurope.com/DATABASE/ART...

My favourite Robert Redford film is All is Lost from (I think) 2013. A little over 90 minutes with Redford as the only cast member and it's superb.

I think most GCs, TERFs and their fellow travellers are lost, but I do wonder how they would approach the questions: In whom should the power to determine someone's gender be invested? How would you feel if the authority empowered to determine gender deemed yours to be other than what you believe?

I suspect our local candidate Lazar is too dim to realise that his fellow Reform fans would be very happy to see him deported back to his birth country of Romania

Amazing to go from ‘not a racist’ to ‘they breed like rabbits’ in the space of two paragraphs.

The Hundred obviously is extremely divisive and I'm not here to shill for it, but I feel it does need pointing out that while weather ruining games is frustrating for everyone, there's nothing new about the English season finishing in September and historically September is no wetter than August.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.