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Richard R

@richr23.bsky.social

Cricket comms for a ‘living’ after decades sportswriting. Left-leaning moderate because that’s what makes for a decent society that works. Triathlete. Spain/UK.

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India on for 300 here. Ridiculous. #T20WC

08.03.2026 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I think that’s the finest Scotland performance I’ve seen in 50 years of watching international rugby. #sixnations

07.03.2026 16:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

06.03.2026 22:26 — 👍 1009    🔁 354    💬 44    📌 14

Mercs have clearly stolen a big march on the rest, but race itself going to be interesting. Hopefully! #F1

07.03.2026 06:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vital.

06.03.2026 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Appalling @metpolice.bsky.social

06.03.2026 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interested in people’s thoughts on whether McCullum should remain as England head coach across all formats ? I think it’s interesting to gauge opinion from supporters because all too often they are the last people to be considered !

06.03.2026 14:21 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 34    📌 0
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End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

03.03.2026 15:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Avocado. Closely followed by Kiwifruit.

23.02.2026 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Syed is such a twerp. Always has been.

22.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

V pleased Glamorgan came up too - Cardiff (and working with @nickwebb2017.bsky.social and company) very much one of the highlights of the championship season.

22.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Must we wait for an ITV drama before this gets taken seriously?

22.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

France the real thing. Unlike England!

22.02.2026 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Two really poor calls in as many minutes by video referee #BravCat

20.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Genuinely hot in the early sun on the terrace this morning …

20.02.2026 09:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such has been the difference between the two halves of the match, I’d be very interested in the betting patterns #NewVQua …

18.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stop the attack on our right to protest The government is planning new powers that could seriously restrict your right to protest. Under these proposals, police could limit or block protests based on the so-called “cumulative impact” of pas...

Our right to protest is under threat. I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social petition to stop new police powers that could shut down many peaceful protests and weaken our democratic rights. Add your name too: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/rig...

18.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Once you couldn’t tell the difference between political parties
YOU CAN NOW

#VoteGreen in #Gorton&Denton

#VoteHannahSpencer

#JoinGreenParty > join.greenparty.org.uk

15.02.2026 11:11 — 👍 143    🔁 64    💬 4    📌 3
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

13.02.2026 09:38 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.

12.02.2026 08:47 — 👍 910    🔁 276    💬 31    📌 7

A shameful day for the International Olympic Committee and President Coventry. #ioc #winterolympics

12.02.2026 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

09.02.2026 06:41 — 👍 6688    🔁 2102    💬 154    📌 529
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Scrap Palantir UK contracts over Mandelson links, Zack Polanski demands ZACK Polanski has demanded that the UK Government scraps its contracts with Palantir, amid mounting questions over Peter Mandelson’s role in…

Get Palantir out of the UK.

Protect our NHS.

Protect our country.

www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

05.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 2816    🔁 923    💬 87    📌 50
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 — 👍 32285    🔁 13859    💬 589    📌 1595
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Palantir’s far-reaching gaze penetrates Britain Are we really still independent of the US security state?

#Epstein was co-owner of a Silicon Valley venture fund controlled by Peter Thiel, billionaire founder of defence analytics giant Palantir Technologies, which holds more than £670 million in UK Government contracts.

Palantir has tentacles that reach deep into the British state and institutions.

05.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 387    🔁 237    💬 15    📌 14
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This grand art gallery is most underrated place to visit in Britain in 2026 According to the Telegraph, this is the UK’s greatest unsung spot

The most underrated places to visit in Britain in 2026, according to the Telegraph.

1 - The Bowes Museum
2 - Williamson Tunnels
3 - Menai Bridge
4 - Clevedon Pier
5 - Lavenham
6 - Maunsell Sea Forts
7 - Beverley Minster
8 - Isle of Bute
9 - Stamford
10 - Yarm

www.timeout.com/uk/news/most...

02.01.2026 19:14 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A member of the Abu Dhabi royal family secretly invested $500 million into the Trump family’s crypto company, gaining a major ownership stake.

Months after inking the deal, the U.S. gave the UAE access to 500,000 advanced AI chips per year.

The corruption is breathtaking.

02.02.2026 18:22 — 👍 2495    🔁 964    💬 86    📌 37
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Hockney. The cliffs looking from Sewerby Park (where I used to play my club cricket) towards Flamborough.

14.01.2026 08:48 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

02.12.2025 08:48 — 👍 11866    🔁 4081    💬 146    📌 447
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The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press

The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...

29.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 1717    🔁 576    💬 77    📌 25