David Wylie
@davidwylie.bsky.social
Belfast original, New York resident. Literature, unionism, politics, business and economics, history, Glentoran and all sorts of lesser spotted football, infrastructure, cricket, places, endurance.
TMS putting out some great stuff in Ashes build-up. Loved this one with Michael Vaughan as I did last week’s with Stuart Broad. Interviews with players who eat and sleep the game and think about it at a depth rarely seen in other sports. Also incredible recall of events over two decades ago.
From The Ashes: Michael Vaughan
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October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
TMS putting out some great stuff in Ashes build-up. Loved this one with Michael Vaughan as I did last week’s with Stuart Broad. Interviews with players who eat and sleep the game and think about it at a depth rarely seen in other sports. Also incredible recall of events over two decades ago.
Yes, and when faced with choosing a leader, these dangerous, anti-American radicals chose...Sleepy Joe.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Yes, and when faced with choosing a leader, these dangerous, anti-American radicals chose...Sleepy Joe.
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We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
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Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
September 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
We need a rapture tracker like the Santa tracker. He must be in Australia by now and making His way across.
September 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We need a rapture tracker like the Santa tracker. He must be in Australia by now and making His way across.
No shit headline of the day.
September 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
No shit headline of the day.
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A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids.
They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
August 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids.
They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
One of the few on the Bronx River Path this morning not wearing a weighted vest. And most using it as an excuse for walking/running slower.
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
One of the few on the Bronx River Path this morning not wearing a weighted vest. And most using it as an excuse for walking/running slower.
When NFL teams just play other NFL teams in pre-season, do any NFL fans ever say, hang on, why aren’t there other teams to play?
August 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
When NFL teams just play other NFL teams in pre-season, do any NFL fans ever say, hang on, why aren’t there other teams to play?
The Oval packed on a Monday morning for the 25th day of the series says it all. I really wonder if there’s a future for white ball cricket.
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The Oval packed on a Monday morning for the 25th day of the series says it all. I really wonder if there’s a future for white ball cricket.
The unveiling of an all-start game logo. American sports reach new levels of ridiculousness.
July 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The unveiling of an all-start game logo. American sports reach new levels of ridiculousness.
Great to finally have an Official Commercial Interiors Partner onboard.
July 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Great to finally have an Official Commercial Interiors Partner onboard.
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One thing about the new ethno-nationalists is they are, just at base, isolated from the culture of their own country. They have no acquaintance with our national game or indeed any major British sport. They have clearly spent little time in any of the UK’s constituent countries other than England.
Possibly the most annoying thing about Goodhart's post is that he clearly has no clue when Ian Wright hung up his boots, nor any of the other black English football players from the 70s, 80s or 90s. If you are going to use sport for your argument, at least know what you are talking about.
All Goodhart's hits here
- gets facts/data wrong
- ignores evidence on integration/segregation
- "average group differences" dog whistle
- gets huffy because left-liberals (rightly) associate his views with those of open racists like Carswell/Goodwin
davidgoodhart.substack.com/p/polarising...
- gets facts/data wrong
- ignores evidence on integration/segregation
- "average group differences" dog whistle
- gets huffy because left-liberals (rightly) associate his views with those of open racists like Carswell/Goodwin
davidgoodhart.substack.com/p/polarising...
July 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One thing about the new ethno-nationalists is they are, just at base, isolated from the culture of their own country. They have no acquaintance with our national game or indeed any major British sport. They have clearly spent little time in any of the UK’s constituent countries other than England.
MAGA is just man-children, man-children everywhere.
I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
July 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
MAGA is just man-children, man-children everywhere.
This is the season of excited to get started, can’t wait to get going.
June 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is the season of excited to get started, can’t wait to get going.
Only way to see Trump is as an easy mark. Evangelicals spotted it first, all sorts of dark domestic forces see it now - the TradCaths, anti-vaxxers, crypto scammers, pro-natalist creeps, techno-feudalists, etc. And internationally, Putin and Netanyahu. So easily manipulated, such a useful idiot.
June 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Only way to see Trump is as an easy mark. Evangelicals spotted it first, all sorts of dark domestic forces see it now - the TradCaths, anti-vaxxers, crypto scammers, pro-natalist creeps, techno-feudalists, etc. And internationally, Putin and Netanyahu. So easily manipulated, such a useful idiot.
One thing that’s clear in all this is that Americans are terrible at chanting. Sports chanting, political chanting, it’s all dreadful and they/we should give it up.
June 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
One thing that’s clear in all this is that Americans are terrible at chanting. Sports chanting, political chanting, it’s all dreadful and they/we should give it up.
Reading about the Irish government's investment in Abbotstown in north-west Dublin as the new home for Ireland cricket, including a 4,000-seater stadium, and realising the lost opportunity for NI.
June 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reading about the Irish government's investment in Abbotstown in north-west Dublin as the new home for Ireland cricket, including a 4,000-seater stadium, and realising the lost opportunity for NI.
Becoming increasingly difficult to support this football club.
June 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Becoming increasingly difficult to support this football club.
No Kings protest crowds were fabulous and delighted they happened but we're notoriously terrible at putting crowds in context and measuring against numbers not there. It's a surprise to no-one that there is strong anti-Trump feeling in the US. As yet unclear whether a single swing voter joined in.
June 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
No Kings protest crowds were fabulous and delighted they happened but we're notoriously terrible at putting crowds in context and measuring against numbers not there. It's a surprise to no-one that there is strong anti-Trump feeling in the US. As yet unclear whether a single swing voter joined in.
Baseball fans need to watch more cricket.
this is one of the most insane home run robberies i've seen
CATCH OF THE YEAR - Denzel Clarke goes wayyyyy over the fence to rob a HR from the Angels' Nolan Shanuel
June 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Baseball fans need to watch more cricket.
Ukrainians sticking it to the Russians 🤝 GAWA in Paris 2016.
Kerch Bridge is on fire Must Watch, Absolutely hilarious. A good day to be Ukrainian
YouTube video by Wolf
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June 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ukrainians sticking it to the Russians 🤝 GAWA in Paris 2016.