James W
@jamesuk.bsky.social
Cricket obsessive, music nerd, politics junkie
@rafnicholson.bsky.social nice mention from Mark Robinson in the latest Wisden pod.
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
@rafnicholson.bsky.social nice mention from Mark Robinson in the latest Wisden pod.
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On your marks, get set, go! 🏁
Help us shift our rewilding work up a gear in the race towards a wilder future 🛻
Support our new appeal for a hybrid 4x4 to boost our rewilding horsepower (and cow-, beaver- and people-power) across London and beyond 🐎
https://ow.ly/Veyv50XpSqq
Help us shift our rewilding work up a gear in the race towards a wilder future 🛻
Support our new appeal for a hybrid 4x4 to boost our rewilding horsepower (and cow-, beaver- and people-power) across London and beyond 🐎
https://ow.ly/Veyv50XpSqq
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
On your marks, get set, go! 🏁
Help us shift our rewilding work up a gear in the race towards a wilder future 🛻
Support our new appeal for a hybrid 4x4 to boost our rewilding horsepower (and cow-, beaver- and people-power) across London and beyond 🐎
https://ow.ly/Veyv50XpSqq
Help us shift our rewilding work up a gear in the race towards a wilder future 🛻
Support our new appeal for a hybrid 4x4 to boost our rewilding horsepower (and cow-, beaver- and people-power) across London and beyond 🐎
https://ow.ly/Veyv50XpSqq
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Liberal Democrat MPs have today tabled a motion in Parliament to remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
Robbie Gibb was appointed by Boris Johnson, he was an editorial adviser to GB News and a director of communications for Theresa May. He is not neutral or impartial.
Robbie Gibb was appointed by Boris Johnson, he was an editorial adviser to GB News and a director of communications for Theresa May. He is not neutral or impartial.
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Liberal Democrat MPs have today tabled a motion in Parliament to remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
Robbie Gibb was appointed by Boris Johnson, he was an editorial adviser to GB News and a director of communications for Theresa May. He is not neutral or impartial.
Robbie Gibb was appointed by Boris Johnson, he was an editorial adviser to GB News and a director of communications for Theresa May. He is not neutral or impartial.
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twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
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The Greens think that they could persuade Putin to give up his nuclear weapons.
How exactly?
By hypnotising him?
How exactly?
By hypnotising him?
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The Greens think that they could persuade Putin to give up his nuclear weapons.
How exactly?
By hypnotising him?
How exactly?
By hypnotising him?
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If the sandwich don't split, you must acquit.
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If the sandwich don't split, you must acquit.
For those of us outside of the USA, one consequence of the great win by Mamdani could be a Trump pivot to be much more domestically focused between now and the mid terms. I dont know if this is good or bad.
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
For those of us outside of the USA, one consequence of the great win by Mamdani could be a Trump pivot to be much more domestically focused between now and the mid terms. I dont know if this is good or bad.
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I'm trying to use Bluesky to sell tickets to my comedy special taping. Don't make me promote on Twitter. I'd rather have an empty house. But it'd be so much nicer if it were full.
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I'm trying to use Bluesky to sell tickets to my comedy special taping. Don't make me promote on Twitter. I'd rather have an empty house. But it'd be so much nicer if it were full.
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Happy Halloween Nigel 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Happy Halloween Nigel 🎃
Cricket out here catching strays in the Loot episode.
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Cricket out here catching strays in the Loot episode.
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Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
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I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
Apologies, im clearly on one today. Now with nuance. He is not and never has been a progressive and that he is lauded by so many progressives is sooo depressing.
His bias is so frustrating as he has such disproportionate influence.
And yet... LDs need him to flip to them. Maybe one day.
His bias is so frustrating as he has such disproportionate influence.
And yet... LDs need him to flip to them. Maybe one day.
Rory Steward is a turd.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Apologies, im clearly on one today. Now with nuance. He is not and never has been a progressive and that he is lauded by so many progressives is sooo depressing.
His bias is so frustrating as he has such disproportionate influence.
And yet... LDs need him to flip to them. Maybe one day.
His bias is so frustrating as he has such disproportionate influence.
And yet... LDs need him to flip to them. Maybe one day.
Rory Steward is a turd.
October 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Rory Steward is a turd.
Farage is basically Mad Jim Jaspers.
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Farage is basically Mad Jim Jaspers.
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It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!
EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.
Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud
Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud.
www.politico.eu
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!
@bwalker.uk interesting just listening to the emergency @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod. It seems a pretty constant feature of uk elections over the last couple of years now. How do we start to model for tactical voting?
October 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@bwalker.uk interesting just listening to the emergency @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod. It seems a pretty constant feature of uk elections over the last couple of years now. How do we start to model for tactical voting?
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
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Seems a bit bizarre but Ashwin just went unsold at the #ILT20
He seems such an obvious buy that you wonder if he's going to be made an example of by BCCI/IPL
He seems such an obvious buy that you wonder if he's going to be made an example of by BCCI/IPL
In 16 seasons' worth of IPL cricket, Ashwin did everything his teams expected him to, and then a little bit more
Ashwin at the IPL - A pioneer and a trendsetter
In 16 seasons' worth of IPL cricket, he did everything his teams expected him to, and then a little bit more
www.espncricinfo.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Seems a bit bizarre but Ashwin just went unsold at the #ILT20
He seems such an obvious buy that you wonder if he's going to be made an example of by BCCI/IPL
He seems such an obvious buy that you wonder if he's going to be made an example of by BCCI/IPL