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coffee, cricket, and copywriting
Losing the same day you were 100 ahead at lunch with 9 wickets in hand takes some doing
#Ashes
#AUSvENG
about 24 hours ago
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This chap on TNT Ashes comms talks as if folk watching have never seen a game cricket before
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Hayley Webster
6 days ago
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...
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Football, eh? Bloody hell…
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7 days ago
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Lewis Goodall
8 days ago
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.
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Otto English
9 days ago
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.
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Caitlin Moran
12 days ago
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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The Grumbler
13 days ago
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
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I didn’t think it possible, the Jaguars have slumped to new levels of ineptitude. Honest to god this team
13 days ago
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Stephen King
16 days ago
Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.
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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜
16 days ago
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.
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Otto English
18 days ago
Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.
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18 days ago
@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 🤞.
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Kath
19 days ago
Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.
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Trades Union Congress
19 days ago
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Ian M
19 days ago
Get well soon Sam. Absolute hero.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxr4qn6d66o
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Tom Pearson
19 days ago
A good defence of London. By
@jonathanliew.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/sadiq-khan-no-go-hellscape-britain-cities-rightwing-agitators
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The brief was to make sure they said no and take the ‘free’ publicity instead
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21 days ago
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This 👇🏻
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21 days ago
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John ‘the importance of ideas & information’
21 days ago
@psbhq.bsky.social
Thank you very, very much!
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with the London Contemporary Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, absolutely mint
21 days ago
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Elizabeth Warren
22 days ago
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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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!
25 days ago
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Dougie
27 days ago
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 🤷🏼
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Hearts v Celtic, best half an hour of football I’ve watched this season, shows up the
#EPL
for the absolute borefest it is
28 days ago
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Tom Pearson
about 1 month ago
Fair play to Sheffield Wednesday fans. Looks a proper boycott at Hillsborough. Chansiri out.
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Shihab S Joi
about 1 month ago
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
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JL Kaufmann
about 1 month ago
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...
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Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English
Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/migrants-will-be-required-to-pass-a-level-standard-of-english
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Alex Andreou
about 2 months ago
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
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Phil Harrison
about 2 months ago
On the occasion of Peanuts' 75th birthday, a reminder, from the first ever strip, that its capacity for summoning existential horror remains potent.
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Anon Opin
about 2 months ago
Your phones battery is perfectly adequate, you just spend too much time on it.
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Matt
2 months ago
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...
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Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas, with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/22/farage-vows-to-scrap-settled-status-placing-thousands-at-risk-of-deportation
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The Grumbler
2 months ago
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
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Bowler’s name?
2 months ago
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Jonathan Campion
2 months ago
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
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My first book Getting Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team’s Last Stand on the Front Lines of War was published in 2024. Getting Out is the story of how Ukraine’s cricketers helped the peopl…
https://jonathancampion.com/cricket
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Very interesting and worth sharing…
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2 months ago
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Caitlin Moran
2 months ago
Yeah - but they will look a lot more fuckable.
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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
2 months ago
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Ed Davey
2 months ago
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.
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Phil Harrison
2 months ago
Stochastic terrorism. Nothing less. Musk is going to get someone killed. And our main political parties will still post on his site.
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Anon Opin
2 months ago
I don't get the hype over Oasis. They had a couple of good songs, but the rest are mediocre at best.
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Wear The Peace
3 months ago
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
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Anon Opin
3 months ago
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?
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Otto English
3 months ago
This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings
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Jane
3 months ago
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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The Volatile Mermaid
3 months ago
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
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RIO LINDA MEX 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦🦍
3 months ago
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Anyone know how many Premier League games Sky are showing this season? 🙄
3 months ago
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Captain Scott Invitation XI
3 months ago
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!
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