Chris Carnall

... which, as ever, then affects the genuine cases ☹️

Ah! Thank you, Martin. I didn’t know that.

Interesting when set alongside recent discussion of allowing substitutes.

A late comment on the England v India Test Match. I wondered at the time why England didn’t give Chris Woakes a runner.

I’ve not seen it mentioned since, so perhaps I’m missing something?

#woakes #ENGvIND

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

Duped, or using it for his own ends like, well… The Telegraph 🙂

Thank you for sharing that - a remarkable piece of writing.

I know it’ a relatively small part of a much deeper article, but this is a very significant observation:

“Political journalism is an access game, and without access you may as well shout at the clouds.”

Good grief! “Learnings” is truly dreadful 😱 I still haven’t got over people “gifting” things to each other, mind you 😉

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Thank you for posting these quizzes.

2/10 🤔 Unless @woollyliberal.bsky.social will kindly give me 1/3 of a mark for the “M” in question 1 😉

Lovely story - thank you for sharing it 🙂 Have to love the casual inclusion of a unicycle in the photo 😄

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And another #QTWTAIN further on in the same newsletter 😉

Smithsonian throws away its credibility.

Well, Johnson *should* be in prison.

Lovely! Many congratulations to you both ❤️

Just peachy to have Justin Webb on #r4today insinuating that asylum seekers arriving by small boats are largely criminals and sex offenders.
Such an irresponsible, Daily Mail-style prejudice in his questions and assertions. This isn’t journalism. It’s scaremongering for the far right. Shameful.

It’s astounding that the people who continue to peddle this nonsense are still employed, never mind taken seriously.

Of course, Dale was (very briefly) a Conservative candidate at the last election, so his judgement is somewhat questionable.

Yet still he pops up on Radio 4.

If you’re going to set it in stone, at least put the apostrophe in Lord’s Supper 😉

4.5/10 this week. Half a point for not quite getting SEND.

As usual, remarkable what I sometimes manage to dredge up, somewhat outweighed by what I just don’t know!

Nixon’s basic argument was that if the President does it, it can’t be illegal. Well, here we are just over 50 years later …

Just finished watching Norma Percy’s 1990s documentary series on Watergate (BBC iPlayer). So interesting not least as a reflection on present-day USA, & p-d documentary making.

Checks & balances just about worked. Of course now Trump’s Supreme Court has granted the President immunity in advance.

Yes indeed - hope you are soon very much better, Peter 🙂

Can someone please explain why it is that too many politicians only seem to want the votes of the prejudiced and the ignorant? To the extent that they are actively repelling anyone capable of rational thought and decency. Why the pathetic need to appease the bigot vote, at everyone else’s expense?

That’s great news! Many congratulations.

Liturgy for a bishop closing down a choir concert.
With thanks for the tip off to @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social whose joke has been shamelessly stolen.

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“We are basically serfs. Doffing our cap in such a grotesque way that people can’t even see through a bullshit-peddler private-school banker, telling them immigrants are the problem and not the entrenched privilege from which he and his ilk have benefited more than anyone who came on a small boat.”

Both of the methods which @support.bsky.team @bsky.app are offering me to verify my age require me to part with data which would be very useful in the wrong hands. I suppose I’ll just have to cope without DMs and “Adult Content”.

A cynic might think the swivel eyed right wing gobshite community might actually want riots this summer.

I find it really frustrating that Montgomerie is still treated like a commentator by the likes of Newsnight, Not Another One podcast etc. He's a politician now, largely spouting talking points and should be treated as such