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Trent Bridge legend, socialist hero, Chris Read fanboy. Lifelong Seattle Orcas fan. Lord's is fine, but Lauderhill has better curry goat. For E.M. Petersen, read Petersen, E.M.
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The thing about a civil war among people you can't stand, such as the current slapfight happening on the US (and weirdo UK) right, is that the worst people in the world occasionally make excellent points. I have just now been forced to agree with Dan Hannan. And if you'll excuse me, I need a shower.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The thing about a civil war among people you can't stand, such as the current slapfight happening on the US (and weirdo UK) right, is that the worst people in the world occasionally make excellent points. I have just now been forced to agree with Dan Hannan. And if you'll excuse me, I need a shower.
Odds at -2.5 that the story Bob Mortimer is telling is true.
The BBC DG needs to be someone who will look at the media environment and pivot to gambling.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Odds at -2.5 that the story Bob Mortimer is telling is true.
Here's what it's like being a cricket fan in South Florida. In a few days begins the "Mayors New World t20," a four-team, 12-day competition at Lauderhill that I heard about yesterday.
November 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Here's what it's like being a cricket fan in South Florida. In a few days begins the "Mayors New World t20," a four-team, 12-day competition at Lauderhill that I heard about yesterday.
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
I would have been deported from Britain under this.
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I would have been deported from Britain under this.
Can we take a moment to thank France? Between cool retro crime and bringing back a major villain from a few seasons ago just to throw him in prison, they're the only purveyors of fun news right now. Plus they made one of the scary technologies sound like "Cat, I farted" in their language. Good guys.
October 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Can we take a moment to thank France? Between cool retro crime and bringing back a major villain from a few seasons ago just to throw him in prison, they're the only purveyors of fun news right now. Plus they made one of the scary technologies sound like "Cat, I farted" in their language. Good guys.
As a South Florida guy who's been watching virtually all Lauderhill matches get scheduled for the subtropical rainy season - solidarity with everybody suffering through a World Cup that's weirdly not going well during Lankan monsoon season.
October 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As a South Florida guy who's been watching virtually all Lauderhill matches get scheduled for the subtropical rainy season - solidarity with everybody suffering through a World Cup that's weirdly not going well during Lankan monsoon season.
"Cultural incoherence" is one of the things that makes Britain great and interesting. Ever been to a place with a great deal of cultural coherence? You'll never be so bored in your life.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"Cultural incoherence" is one of the things that makes Britain great and interesting. Ever been to a place with a great deal of cultural coherence? You'll never be so bored in your life.
Bank robber describes getting caught robbing banks as "one of the most difficult moments" in his career of bank robbery.
USA Cricket has described the ICC's decision to suspend it as "one of the most difficult moments" in its history and "difficult to comprehend"
USA Cricket calls ICC suspension 'one of the most difficult moments' in its history
USAC said it remains committed to navigating through this "challenging" period and will hold elections in line with the timeline agreed upon with the ICC
www.espncricinfo.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Bank robber describes getting caught robbing banks as "one of the most difficult moments" in his career of bank robbery.
What? Oh, you know, not much. It's fine, everything's fine.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What? Oh, you know, not much. It's fine, everything's fine.
I just think it's nice that Audie Murphy's still dating.
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I just think it's nice that Audie Murphy's still dating.
Tonight in sport: Stu v European football's most notoriously hard-to-find goal.
September 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Tonight in sport: Stu v European football's most notoriously hard-to-find goal.
I presume there's wanton fornication in the streets of West Bridgford by now. Or, you know, more wanton than usual.
September 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I presume there's wanton fornication in the streets of West Bridgford by now. Or, you know, more wanton than usual.
I think the thing I hate most about the term "bad light" is that it's gaslighting light. The light is not bad. All light is content-neutral. Granted, "insufficient ability to deal with perfectly normal light that's less bright than it might otherwise be" isn't as pithy, but still.
September 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I think the thing I hate most about the term "bad light" is that it's gaslighting light. The light is not bad. All light is content-neutral. Granted, "insufficient ability to deal with perfectly normal light that's less bright than it might otherwise be" isn't as pithy, but still.
Mandelson writing to Epstein that his initial legal troubles "just could not happen in Britain" has got to be this year's True, But Maybe Not In the Way You Were Thinking winner.
September 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Mandelson writing to Epstein that his initial legal troubles "just could not happen in Britain" has got to be this year's True, But Maybe Not In the Way You Were Thinking winner.
This feels real because an Anglophile American would be polite enough to imply there are Worcs cricketers who aren't obscure.
Prolific American novelist here. For some reason that I genuinely cannot remember, I name most of my male characters after obscure Worcestershire County cricketers. Now that they have a women's team I have started naming female characters after them as well. Too late to stop now.
September 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This feels real because an Anglophile American would be polite enough to imply there are Worcs cricketers who aren't obscure.
If you're unfamiliar with Jared Moskowitz, he's got something of the Australian slip fielder who literally never shuts up about him, and it's fantastic.
Democrat member Jared Moskowitz asks Farage why he has to leave the hearing early, and if it is because he is having lunch with Trump. Farage declines to say.
September 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you're unfamiliar with Jared Moskowitz, he's got something of the Australian slip fielder who literally never shuts up about him, and it's fantastic.
NOTTINGHAM HAS ENTERED THE GODDAMN CHAT.
Under very tough questioning from Jamie Raskin, Nigel Farage says he does not think Reform has ever barred any journalists from its events. I *personally* know of some who have been.
September 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
NOTTINGHAM HAS ENTERED THE GODDAMN CHAT.
Hank Johnson here, hitting Nigel with a little Your Ground's Too Big For You.
Democrat member Hank Johnson is basically taking the piss out of Farage, asking how many seats he has in the Commons, and accusing him of trying to get money from Elon Musk. "You're trying to ingratiate yourself with the tech bros," Johnson says. Farage getting quite annoyed.
September 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Hank Johnson here, hitting Nigel with a little Your Ground's Too Big For You.
Gotta admit, Nige has a point here. If I turn up at Heathrow and start suggesting people beat up other people in toilets, I could be in for a rough ride.
Farage says what happened to Graham Linehan "could happen to any American man or woman that goes to Heathrow, that has said things online that the British government and British police don't like".
September 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Gotta admit, Nige has a point here. If I turn up at Heathrow and start suggesting people beat up other people in toilets, I could be in for a rough ride.
Just spitballing here, but somebody should find out if this man's home country has a national broadcaster of some sort that employs somebody who could ask him questions along these lines.
"There is not a free speech crisis in the UK. Keir Starmer has not shut down GB News," Ruskin says. Farage seems "most at home with the autocrats and dictators of this world", he adds. If he's serious about the Online Safety Act, he should be in parliament, he says, not here.
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just spitballing here, but somebody should find out if this man's home country has a national broadcaster of some sort that employs somebody who could ask him questions along these lines.
It's also got a cavalcade of Republicans being as awful as you'd expect, but Democrats on the US House Judiciary Committee are turning this into The Roast of Nigel Farage, and that is glorious.
Well, not entirely: senior Democrat committee member Jamie Raskin asks why they are hearing from Farage and not from people who have suffered real censorship in Russia or China. He also links Reform UK to the AfD and National Rally. Farage won't like that.
September 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It's also got a cavalcade of Republicans being as awful as you'd expect, but Democrats on the US House Judiciary Committee are turning this into The Roast of Nigel Farage, and that is glorious.