Q: "What do you do better than anyone else in the world?" A: "Commentate on Cricket in german. I'm better at doing it in german, a skill I taught myself in my 30s, than some native english speakers are at doing it in english, that have actually played professionally.

Luke 2:1 "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." Morgan McSweeney: "Focus groups are going to fucking hate this"

Honestly not sure why prime minister after prime minister goes through this establishment-appeasing charade. Jeremy Corbyn might have destabilised the country but he’d have had no truck with the Reform-lite bullshit of ‘Christian values’.

lol lmao this government will stop at nothing to fold for people who are never going to vote for them

Why, is Andrew on them?

Despite them taking more self inflicted rakes to the face than Sideshow Bob, this tour has been notably lacking in pious declarations from respected cricket writers, underlining in no uncertain terms that the England men's team haven't earned the right to set foot on the MCG. Odd that.

Correction courtesy of @cricketosprey.bsky.social, she's currently injured so won't be playing the World Cup Qualifier. But she is available once fit.

Santa has brought me an early Christmas present. Kirstie Gordon is returning to play for Scotland and will be available for the Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier.

Not sure where this dog is driving to.

Series 2 of "The War Between Land & Sea" just dropped.

A list of punctuation marks that are also body parts:

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

Nattaya Boochatham, one of the legends of associate cricket and a giant of Thai cricket has announced her retirement aged 39 after Thailand won the SEA Games gold in T20 and T10. This means she won't be available for the global qualifier.

This is horrible. Imagine what this complaint being listened to might have avoided. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Thailand women winning two golds was the likeliest outcome given their miles ahead of the other SEA teams, but it was fantastic to see there being commentary in Thai at the ground and a rowdy crowd during the final!

Thailand women win the South East Asian games T20, their third tournament in three weeks. Pretty good going.

I wrote this. It's basically ''Fuck you, Elon Musk' but with science and facts and stuff.

This is almost as wild as when I discovered that one of the American Pie films was directed by one of Bob Dylan's kids.

I do not want them on my feed I do not want them, no indeed I do not want them here, Bluesky I do not want them; please don't try. I do not want them - are you pissed? Do not import my contacts list.

Have been teaching probability this week and managed to get large groups of 16 year olds joining in on a game of "Play Your Cards Right". Quite proud of this.

Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote: 'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.' By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"

Hitman 3. Remains the game I enjoy the most.

liberal columnists: everyone despises starmer and nobody really knows why left/centre/right: here is a litany of reasons, with citation, as to why i hate that fucking guy liberal columnists: it's inexplicable. he's a decent guy, a human rights lawyer fgs, jus trying to fix 14 years of tory mess

I make that 22 minutes between TNT Sports broadcasting a tribute to those who died at Bondi this week, and an advert for discounted Yeezys.

One thing I've learned from the last few years is that if the National Front, British National Party, Combat 88, and all the other British white-power fringe groups had thought to set themselves up as "charities," the history of the 70s and 80s might have been very different.

you can't be opposed to the far right and a transphobe. those two positions conflict.

Though no longer a new development, worth noting it's pretty useless that ESPNcricinfo aren't providing live scoring for a women's ODI between two Full Member nations (for which live streaming is freely available). An empty scorecard simply stating/demanding 'Bet' says it all.

I have this day, through careful and empirical investigation and experimentation, discovered that the luxurious and decadent Fox’s Chocolatey Milk Chocolate Rounds… are in actual fact, fucking Party Rings with chocolate on them.

PITCH: Biblical era Home Alone with Herod going the houses around trying to slay childer but getting caught in all sorts of traps.

A polite whisper of "god that looks awful" in the trailers is acceptable as is moderate phone usage. Once that BBFC title card comes up, shut up and sit back or gtfo

He's not, because the processing of Santa Claus's own "naughty or nice" data is necessary for the performance of a task carried out by Santa as a competent authority. (DPA 2018 s35(2))

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

The world needs more people like Robin.

It's a sad state of affairs when being decent and kind is considered incompatible with being a science presenter on the national broadcaster.

So rarely hear the phrase “legitimate concerns” being used with climate change protestors, hunger striking peace activists, trans people who want to live without fear, and on and on

Excellent piece. Cricket is about to discover the problems with putting all their eggs in an Indian basket.

I find it baffling that Kirstie Gordon is still (apparently) holding out for the ever fainter hope of an England recall. Pressure from her county side maybe? Counties used to get payments for fielding England eligible players in men's cricket, does something similar happen in women's cricket?

Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.

The court ruled that: She sent racist messages to colleagues. She lied in her evidence. She bullied her trans colleague. Trans women do not present any risk to other women in changing rooms to toilets. The headlines don't seem to mention those facts.

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If England were an associate member, Cricket Australia would be proposing a reduction in the number of teams in the Ashes.

Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government." The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.

Watching South Africa v Ireland - producers clearly didn't realise that the "random member of the crowd" they were interviewing is an international captain with nearly 100 caps!

Spain swept the 5 match series, which would appear to be the first time official international cricket has taken place in December in Europe. There was a women's T10 tournament last year but the ICC doesn't currently sanction T10 internationals.

Spain's Mohammad Ihsan scored 160 in a T20I today against Croatia, the highest score by an associate player in men's T20Is and 3rd highest overall. Previous best was Sacha de Alwis' 150 for Cayman Islands v Argentina 12 months ago. There are 2 higher scores by associate players in women's T20Is.

Pre-dated Blair but yeah. Same company made probably the most subversive war video game ever, the amazing Cannon Fodder.

It was everywhere in England in the 90s. Soccer AM on Sky. Soccer Schools. Sensible Soccer (the best soccer video game). Never heard objections to it until about 20 years ago.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.