Losing the same day you were 100 ahead at lunch with 9 wickets in hand takes some doing #Ashes #AUSvENG

This chap on TNT Ashes comms talks as if folk watching have never seen a game cricket before

Funny only last week I wrote about the transformative power of ear defenders and how child me would have been saved real pain if I'd had them. open.substack.com/pub/hayleywe...

Football, eh? Bloody hell…

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

The BBC, the NHS and county cricket are the essence of my concept of Britishness. Let's defend all three. Because they sure need it

I didn’t think it possible, the Jaguars have slumped to new levels of ineptitude. Honest to god this team

Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.

Disability benefits here in the UK are less than most people believe. They're harder to get than most people believe. Fraud is lower than most people believe. The evidence you need to get them is more than most people believe. The Government and media rely on this collective ignorance.

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

@psbhq.bsky.social Evening all, I have a spare matinee performance print (long story) would be happy to swap with an evening one if anyone is interested 🤞.

Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.

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Get well soon Sam. Absolute hero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A good defence of London. By @jonathanliew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The brief was to make sure they said no and take the ‘free’ publicity instead

This 👇🏻

@psbhq.bsky.social Thank you very, very much!

@psbhq.bsky.social with the London Contemporary Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, absolutely mint

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

First proper coming off of bike since getting a Brompton last year, wear a helmet cyclists! Mine today saved me from a horrible crack to the skull!

The Far Right: Our culture is being eroded by immigrants. It's an invasion and we're being overrun. Also the Far Right: Lots of brown faces on TV doesn't accurately reflect the UK 🤷🏼

Hearts v Celtic, best half an hour of football I’ve watched this season, shows up the #EPL for the absolute borefest it is

Fair play to Sheffield Wednesday fans. Looks a proper boycott at Hillsborough. Chansiri out.

Fish in batter was introduced to Britain in 16th century by Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews, the pie is Egyptian, and curry is a British word. No one in the subcontinent calls it that

But if you were born here, you can carry right on being an illiterate little fuckwit who couldn't read a room if your career depended on it, eh? www.gov.uk/government/n...

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

On the occasion of Peanuts' 75th birthday, a reminder, from the first ever strip, that its capacity for summoning existential horror remains potent.

Your phones battery is perfectly adequate, you just spend too much time on it.

Don't normally get too personal on here but this would force me and my partner to leave. She's Japanese and paid thousands of pounds in visa fees and NHS surcharges just to be allowed to stay here — she's never taken a penny in public funds. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just brilliant, brilliant county cricket once again. Pure #MetroBankFever Well done 🍐🍐🍐s. And having the JB33 Foundations on their shirts. (Thanks for the sponsors for that) Any victory by a non-host county must be over-celebrated

Bowler’s name?

My website has a page for my work in #cricket – stories from the global game that never make the headlines: 🏏 Writing for the Wisden Almanack and others; 🏏 A book, Getting Out, about Ukrainian cricket; 🏏 Podcasts, talks & interviews. See, hire and connect with me here ⬇️ jonathancampion.com/cricket

Very interesting and worth sharing…

Yeah - but they will look a lot more fuckable.

Poignant moment in the year for me, cricket bag has been put away. That's the end of the summer, and what a glorious one it's been. Will miss the @csixi.bsky.social crew through the winter, to play for this team means the world to me. Here's me moments after hitting the winning runs against UOHCC

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Stochastic terrorism. Nothing less. Musk is going to get someone killed. And our main political parties will still post on his site.

I don't get the hype over Oasis. They had a couple of good songs, but the rest are mediocre at best.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Now that 2025 has been declared as officially being hotter than 1976 maybe the boomers can stop mentioning it every time someone complains that it's hot?

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

Anyone know how many Premier League games Sky are showing this season? 🙄

Congrats to our very own @bwwatson.bsky.social for his maiden Scotties half-century yesterday. A thrilling encounter with Haddenham saw us victorious by 12 runs!