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Ashes 2025-26: Glenn McGrath predicts 5-0 win for Australia As usual, Glenn McGrath predicts Australia will win the 2025-26 Ashes 5-0 - but says Joe Root and Harry Brook are the England players the hosts will fear most.

"Say the line, Bart"
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Against acceptance theories of social norms - John Lawless, 2025 According to some theories, a rule counts as a social norm within a community only if the members of the community generally accept the rule. This is a conceptu...

There's a philosopher named 'Lawless' who works on social norms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @jowolff.bsky.social @martinoneill.bsky.social might be interested

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I could bowl left arm seamers at 47mph but somehow it's Sam Curran who ends up with the professional contract, smh #TheHundred

I think this is basically correct. And the far right don't have to deliver because lack of delivery can be blamed on out-groups which simply reinforces their appeal. So it's all going one way until states manage to deliver something

Absolutely

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Drawn series. Mixed race identity undefeated

Back to the office today

They don't seem to gavd trouble with variation in white-ball games. But perhaps that's a different thing to simply bowling slower regular balls, or not replicable in the test context

No price given for Sinner's Rolex, because it's his own

Carlos Alcaraz: an exclusive interview The 22-year-old Spaniard has charmed the world with his compulsive tennis. Can he keep winning and stay true to his spirit?

Seems like a nice guy

Carlos Alcaraz: an exclusive interview - on.ft.com/41edgqc via @FT

A photo of Carlos Alcaraz in his tennis kit. Caption reads "Alcaraz wears Nike recycled polyester NikeCourt dri-fit men's tennis polo, £39.99, and matching tennis shorts, £39.99. Role gold and turquoise Cosmograph Daytona watch, £31750" image copyright Dan Martensen

"Someone please help me budget this, my tennis hobby is getting very expensive"

India get a thrilling dose of the Zak Crawley experience The England opener has remained undroppable despite plenty of patchy form, and he showed why at The Oval

Crawley averages much more against faster bowling, which raises the question: why don't fast bowlers simply bowl a big slower to him? www.espncricinfo.com/story/india-...

Wokeness: a Retrospective In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...

My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good

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So it's a tactic for the particular batter rather than conditions or bowler or match situation? Or just experimentation?

What's the reason for this? I recall Westley is quite a leg side player

Baby's first immunisations today. People have a lot of concerns about vaccines, so I found it very reassuring that George Soros himself was there to personally administer the microchip

Nobody tells you how funny babies can be. I spend so much time just laughing at my kid's weird movements, expressions and noises

Congratulations Jo! Enjoy your retirement

Text reading: Marcus: Is Gill short for Guildenstern? If so, only 77 more coin tosses to go. To quote Stoppard, there is an art to the building up of suspense."

High culture in the cricinfo comment section

Thanks for posting this - didn't know him and looked him up as a result. Early renewables guy?

Edmund Griffiths, almost always on the money

She's right

I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach Symbolic gestures and empty statements are no longer enough. In Israel’s globalised economy, here’s what will shift public opinion, says says senior lecturer in Israeli studies Yair Wallach

By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements.
The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com

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The epistemic balloon has gone up

Remember:

100,000+ people marching about war/austerity/gaza/tuition fees/Brexit = elite out of touch with the wider British people

-1000 racist thugs trying to riot at a asylum hostel = Britain a tinderbox, we need to bring Farage in urgently to stop it exploding

Effective Altruism meets its Wario