Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social
Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council.
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Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social
· Nov 12
On #DifferentClass🏏📚
"A modern day John Arlott" - Lord Hain
"A book all #cricket lovers should read" - Mihir Bose
"the most invaluable contribution to cricket literature this century” - Tribune Magazine
“A worthy successor to Mike Marqusee" - Big Issue North
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"A modern day John Arlott" - Lord Hain
"A book all #cricket lovers should read" - Mihir Bose
"the most invaluable contribution to cricket literature this century” - Tribune Magazine
“A worthy successor to Mike Marqusee" - Big Issue North
repeaterbooks.com/product/diff...
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As an Australian I can't emphasise how much it being free on TV makes a difference. Sport should be shared wide, not paywalled so only rich diehards have it.
January 8, 2026 at 11:10 AM
As an Australian I can't emphasise how much it being free on TV makes a difference. Sport should be shared wide, not paywalled so only rich diehards have it.
Will English #cricket ever face up to ‘home truths’?!
#Ashes #CricketSky
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/cric...
#Ashes #CricketSky
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/cric...
January 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Will English #cricket ever face up to ‘home truths’?!
#Ashes #CricketSky
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/cric...
#Ashes #CricketSky
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/cric...
Lest we forget #London benefited from a #oil deal with #Venezuela. 🇻🇪
www.theguardian.com/world/2007/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2007/f...
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Lest we forget #London benefited from a #oil deal with #Venezuela. 🇻🇪
www.theguardian.com/world/2007/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2007/f...
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PHOTOGRAPHER OPEN CALL!
At the heart of movements who have a political visual story to tell – underrepresented stories to the front!
A chance for your photo essay to run in our upcoming print edition.
Please send a 100 word pitch + 2 sample links to editors@redpepper.org.uk
At the heart of movements who have a political visual story to tell – underrepresented stories to the front!
A chance for your photo essay to run in our upcoming print edition.
Please send a 100 word pitch + 2 sample links to editors@redpepper.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:04 PM
PHOTOGRAPHER OPEN CALL!
At the heart of movements who have a political visual story to tell – underrepresented stories to the front!
A chance for your photo essay to run in our upcoming print edition.
Please send a 100 word pitch + 2 sample links to editors@redpepper.org.uk
At the heart of movements who have a political visual story to tell – underrepresented stories to the front!
A chance for your photo essay to run in our upcoming print edition.
Please send a 100 word pitch + 2 sample links to editors@redpepper.org.uk
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ICE agent allegedly shot & killed a woman driving through an immigration raid in Minneapolis this morning.
According to video of aftermath it appears the woman's wife & dog were in the car when she was shot in the head.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
According to video of aftermath it appears the woman's wife & dog were in the car when she was shot in the head.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE agent allegedly shot & killed a woman driving through an immigration raid in Minneapolis this morning.
According to video of aftermath it appears the woman's wife & dog were in the car when she was shot in the head.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
According to video of aftermath it appears the woman's wife & dog were in the car when she was shot in the head.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Yup. Union busting tastes disgusting.
January 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Yup. Union busting tastes disgusting.
Ye Gods. Starbucks is rank coffee. 😫
January 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Ye Gods. Starbucks is rank coffee. 😫
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#PowerChords is a #music-lovers book about growing up through #punk. It calls out for Angels of #Protest to re-energise rock’nroll & challenge privilege & prejudice all over again.
Buy at your fave indie #bookshop
or here(?)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/183615433...
Buy at your fave indie #bookshop
or here(?)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/183615433...
January 5, 2026 at 6:34 PM
#PowerChords is a #music-lovers book about growing up through #punk. It calls out for Angels of #Protest to re-energise rock’nroll & challenge privilege & prejudice all over again.
Buy at your fave indie #bookshop
or here(?)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/183615433...
Buy at your fave indie #bookshop
or here(?)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/183615433...
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Something else that has finally melted completely into air is Starmer's record as a human rights lawyer. He has stated he wants to work with the US on their war crimes
January 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Something else that has finally melted completely into air is Starmer's record as a human rights lawyer. He has stated he wants to work with the US on their war crimes
TISM The Parable Of Glenn McGrath's Haircut
YouTube video by WGU Japlandic
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Boland you so-and-so! Naughty.
January 4, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Boland you so-and-so! Naughty.
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Bowie: The Final Act review – the critic who made the star cry is stunned by his own disrespect
Bowie: The Final Act review – the critic who made the star cry is stunned by his own disrespect
Released two days before his death, Bowie’s last album Blackstar was a redemptive masterstroke. But his career was stuffed with failures – and this documentary refuses to gloss over the most painful parts
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Bowie: The Final Act review – the critic who made the star cry is stunned by his own disrespect
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Take note leaders of Europe this is what you should have bloody said.
January 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Take note leaders of Europe this is what you should have bloody said.
Surely the Paddy Power Peace Prize is a shoe in.
#Alliteration
#Alliteration
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Surely the Paddy Power Peace Prize is a shoe in.
#Alliteration
#Alliteration
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Ye Gods - English #cricket #media utterly blind to the basis of such an ‘amazing’ coincidence! 🫣
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
January 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Ye Gods - English #cricket #media utterly blind to the basis of such an ‘amazing’ coincidence! 🫣
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
Ye Gods - English #cricket #media utterly blind to the basis of such an ‘amazing’ coincidence! 🫣
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
January 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Ye Gods - English #cricket #media utterly blind to the basis of such an ‘amazing’ coincidence! 🫣
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
They don’t like it up ‘em!!
Pleasure Duncan. I’m enjoying it. The greatest game in the hands of the biggest idiots. A perennial frustration. Glad you’ve chosen to bowl some hostile leg theory at them
January 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
They don’t like it up ‘em!!
For more on the racial/class dynamics that imprison cricket, the most beautiful game but one riddled with prejudices & stereotypes helpful to those who guard its ‘history’ & image (& hoard its benefits) @drcricket.bsky.social’s book Different Class, which I started this morning, is a treasure trove
January 2, 2026 at 12:24 PM
As @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social has pointed out. Khawaja’s statement is a sad reflection on #cricket administration (in UK and Australia) and, more acutely, the #media.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
Usman Khawaja to retire: Australia batter says he still fights 'racial stereotypes'
Australia batter Usman Khawaja says he has been treated unfairly by the media and former players as he announces his retirement from international cricket.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
As @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social has pointed out. Khawaja’s statement is a sad reflection on #cricket administration (in UK and Australia) and, more acutely, the #media.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
HNY #cricketsky! 🎉
The #Ashes defeat is not a failure of #Bazball, but the culture of English #cricket that led to it.
As #ICEC briefly achieved, the conversation as to why we in the UK are increasingly uncompetitive (and unimaginative) needs to be widened:
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
As #ICEC briefly achieved, the conversation as to why we in the UK are increasingly uncompetitive (and unimaginative) needs to be widened:
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is pointing his finger at the camera .
ALT: a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is pointing his finger at the camera .
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:52 AM
HNY #cricketsky! 🎉
The #Ashes defeat is not a failure of #Bazball, but the culture of English #cricket that led to it.
As #ICEC briefly achieved, the conversation as to why we in the UK are increasingly uncompetitive (and unimaginative) needs to be widened:
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
As #ICEC briefly achieved, the conversation as to why we in the UK are increasingly uncompetitive (and unimaginative) needs to be widened:
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is pointing his finger at the camera .
ALT: a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is pointing his finger at the camera .
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The #Ashes defeat is not a failure of #Bazball, but the culture of English #cricket that led to it.
As #ICEC briefly achieved, the conversation as to why we in the UK are increasingly uncompetitive (and unimaginative) needs to be widened:
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
As #ICEC briefly achieved, the conversation as to why we in the UK are increasingly uncompetitive (and unimaginative) needs to be widened:
angrysoutherneroopnorth.blogspot.com/2025/12/beyo...
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There is a devastating report in the NYT this afternoon that one the US-destroyed fishing boats washed ashore in Columbia and contained only evidence of marijuana.
Trump’s claim that he is saving the US from fentanyl smuggling by Venezuela is a disprovable lie.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Trump’s claim that he is saving the US from fentanyl smuggling by Venezuela is a disprovable lie.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There is a devastating report in the NYT this afternoon that one the US-destroyed fishing boats washed ashore in Columbia and contained only evidence of marijuana.
Trump’s claim that he is saving the US from fentanyl smuggling by Venezuela is a disprovable lie.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Trump’s claim that he is saving the US from fentanyl smuggling by Venezuela is a disprovable lie.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Wrote something today on the wider significance of the #Ashes defeat - might even be decent?
Let's see if I can find a 'mainstream' home for it.
Let's see if I can find a 'mainstream' home for it.
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Wrote something today on the wider significance of the #Ashes defeat - might even be decent?
Let's see if I can find a 'mainstream' home for it.
Let's see if I can find a 'mainstream' home for it.
December 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
