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The late, great Dolly Parton, Bette Midler (& me pretending to play the piano…)
What a lady…
Goodnight Dolly. Thanks for everything….❤️💔
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Much debate over follow-on, especially with Gregory limping from a bruised hip, but it was the aggressive option in a game @SomersetCCC need to win. Leach and Vaughan hold the key for tomorrow.
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If you walked up to Mike Tyson in a bar and punched him in the face, I doubt ‘you can’t hit back because I’m so puny!’ would save you from consequences.
Same on X. If you want to punch me in public but don’t want to risk a brain injury in return, stick to your own weight class.
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The central problem with The Hundred is that it is a parasite competition. Which makes use of English cricket's grounds, players, season & media coverage at the cost of EVERYTHING ELSE. The more it succeeds the more it destroys. Test cricket, ODI cricket, county cricket etc.
Is the Hundred good? Is it good for cricket? Will anyone ever change their minds about it? Why is it still trying to justify its existence, a decade on?
A longish piece, asking plenty of the people involved, about the state of things in its sixth year.
nytimes.com/athletic/7517558…
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No. No you aren't. The Hundred deliberately harms test & county cricket. The more it succeeds the more it damages test & county cricket. Instead of a test series v NZ or Pakistan at the height of summer cricket fans have had to endure a meaningless nonsense competition instead.
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I’m interested in who was really invested in the winner? Were people on the edge of their seat? Devastated when their team lost? Because that’s what you need for a sport to mean something more, than cash in peoples pockets
No matter the quality of cricket, the Hundred is still spending too much time justifying its own existence - and that is a problem
Reflections on the 2026 season @cricinfo
cricinfo.com/story/the-hundr…
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People who are pro-Hundred like saying this sort of thing.
It completely misses the point.
It ignores people's dislike for the Hundred not just being about the comp itself.
It's also about the wide-ranging negative effects it has on other formats and English cricket generally.
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Whilst the social media ban is well-intentioned, it’s unlikely to work given the mass adoption of VPNs.
It will also mean the introduction of Digital ID via the back door.
The real answer here is handsets for children with limited features.
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As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?
Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?
That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?
That men don’t belong in women’s sport?
That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?
That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?
That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?
That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?
That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?
That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?
That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?
That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?
That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?
That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?
Let me have your thoughts.
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I genuinely can't fathom a mindset that watched the Henry Nowak video, and then thought 'let's ignore all that and have a pop at Farage instead'. Utterly disturbing.
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If you disagree with Keir Starmer he will call you racist, far right and goodness-knows-what.
He is completely out of touch.
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I’m pretty sure that when Henry Nowak’s father said he did not want his son’s death to create more division, he did not mean: “I want left-wing politicians and commentators to weaponise my grief to shut down debate.”
Yet that is exactly what is happening. It’s disgusting to see his words misappropriated as a political battering ram, used to attack anyone who asks difficult questions about the way Henry was treated, and about the anti-white ideology explicitly codified in the public sector.
Mr Nowak also said that the police treatment of his dying son was “inhumane and degrading”.
We should make sure no other British child is treated the way Henry was.
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Everyone who agrees two tier policing exists and is a problem should be working together to end it. Instead you have people joining forces with the Establishment to virtue signal about Farage's comments to score political points. Pathetic.
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If you want to know what sort of man #KeirStarmer is, first note how slow he was to make any public comment about the murder of Henry Nowak. And second, note how quick he was to condemn his political opponents for speaking up about it.
telegraph.co.uk/gift/10694d9…
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My legal team have written to the BBC demanding a full on air apology and investigation into the defamatory comments made about me on Newsnight.
Enough is enough.
dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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For those that didn’t pass their English GCSE or don’t have access to a dictionary, this one’s for you.
“Cold rage is a highly controlled, suppressed form of intense anger. Instead of a loud, explosive outburst, it manifests as a calm, calculated, and terrifyingly focused mindset.”
Please tell me how @Nigel_Farage called for violence on the streets in Southampton last night?
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Replying to @Keir_Starmer
What is unforgivable is claiming “there is no two-tier policing” while police chiefs this morning say they are reviewing guidance because it prioritises minorities. You are more interested in blaming Nigel Farage than fixing the underlying issue.



















