Simon Travers

Hope you stay up

Ahh Babbacombe, the closest experience you can get to playing cricket on a snowboard half-pipe.

If you look hard enough, £40 will get you a couple of 1950s, 1960s Wisdens.

Reassuring to see some decency in our politics

Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice

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It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Devon CCC there from Sunday for a 3 day NCCA game v Oxfordshire. Devon currently 1 point top of Div 1 West table.

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It's quite a nice one. Been there once last season to score.

six months of president trump
six months of new immigration policies:

Come on Laura - stop letting Farage get away with grotesque lies on #climate - the green economy is growing 3 times faster than rest of the economy. The green transition is in our *economic interests* & it’s Farage who’ll de-industrialise the UK, not green policy #bbclaurak

65% is not around half. 65% is 1% less than two thirds, which is significantly above half.

En Vogue were on fire

The Sweep 25 Week 9: Baker’s best burns Heathcoat Cornwood reach the season's halfway point with a win thanks to runs from Ben Privett and a career best from Lee Baker. If it's at the Wood, it's in the Sweep.

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Chequered Flag was so hard

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Checked out Caroline 2 tonight

The Sweep 25 Week 6: Upton’s Top Ranking, Run Out of the Year and Rickard Turns Heel All DCL matches rained off, but still plenty happening at the Wood. There was a big away win for the Women's Firsts and a full cohort of social and colts cricket.

Full write ups on Charlie Farmer and Eoin Hewitt performances in this week's Cornwood Sweep. www.cornwood.cc/post/the-swe...

Petition to retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND reaches 100,000

Well isn't that something

Would settle for a long afternoon in Scriveners in Buxton, or the Bookbarn International in Farrington Gurney.

The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

Properly funny

Nemesis is the best Marple by a mile, in book and Joan Hickson format

The Sweep 25 Week 4: Cornwood Twos Keep Rolling and Two Tons for Joshi In this week's Cornwood Sweep, the Twos go 4 from 4, while Samarpit Joshi hit the 2nd highest 1XI innings ever. If it happens at the Wood, it's in the Sweep.

Samarpit Joshi's knock was only the 3rd knock of 150+ for a Cornwood 1XI player in DCL matches. 2nd highest individual total for a Cornwood 1XI player. Full story at www.cornwood.cc/post/the-swe...

How the government captured the BBC A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed

I believe this deep dive article goes a long way to explaining the situation.

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3 vote - Switzerland
2 vote - Sweden
1 vote - Austria
Discretionary votes - Lux, Spain, Albania

😃 if they get the harmonies right, could get left half of board

I like the Swiss song, but also Bara Bada Bastu had been stuck in my head since Tuesday

Scoring a cricket match this afternoon. Then home via Tesco.