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@bwwatson.bsky.social

coffee, cricket, and copywriting

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Murder, she sighed.

28.10.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or the charity shop?

27.10.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Far Right: Our culture is being eroded by immigrants. It's an invasion and we're being overrun.

Also the Far Right: Lots of brown faces on TV doesn't accurately reflect the UK

🀷🏼

26.10.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hearts v Celtic, best half an hour of football I’ve watched this season, shows up the #EPL for the absolute borefest it is

26.10.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Doesn’t sound too bad then thank goodness

26.10.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yikes. Seen result didn’t know about those. Fingers crossed nothing serious, been so impressed with Spencer

25.10.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WTAF?!?

22.10.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heart bleeds for Manning 🀣

22.10.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does it also highlight just how shite Derby were on Saturday? This has been atrocious tonight

22.10.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fair play to Sheffield Wednesday fans. Looks a proper boycott at Hillsborough.

Chansiri out.

22.10.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fish in batter was introduced to Britain in 16th century by Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews, the pie is Egyptian, and curry is a British word. No one in the subcontinent calls it that

18.10.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Took the words right out of my mouth. These fucking people honestly. Imagine living such a pathetic little life where you a) proclaim to have never had a curry or kebab or b) worse still haven’t actually had one of those πŸ˜•πŸ”«

18.10.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

But if you were born here, you can carry right on being an illiterate little fuckwit who couldn't read a room if your career depended on it, eh?

www.gov.uk/government/n...

14.10.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Agree, and he also seems to be just the loveliest lad

09.10.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

06.10.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3017    πŸ” 924    πŸ’¬ 264    πŸ“Œ 173
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On the occasion of Peanuts' 75th birthday, a reminder, from the first ever strip, that its capacity for summoning existential horror remains potent.

02.10.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck that I’m in bloody IKEA

28.09.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Your phones battery is perfectly adequate, you just spend too much time on it.

26.09.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2

Four words… New York sports fans…

26.09.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas, with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

Don't normally get too personal on here but this would force me and my partner to leave. She's Japanese and paid thousands of pounds in visa fees and NHS surcharges just to be allowed to stay here β€” she's never taken a penny in public funds.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

22.09.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, mate

22.09.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just brilliant, brilliant county cricket once again.
Pure #MetroBankFever

Well done 🍐🍐🍐s. And having the JB33 Foundations on their shirts. (Thanks for the sponsors for that)

Any victory by a non-host county must be over-celebrated



20.09.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bowler’s name?

18.09.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CRICKET My first book Getting Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team’s Last Stand on the Front Lines of War was published in 2024. Getting OutΒ is the story of how Ukraine’s cricketers helped the peopl…

My website has a page for my work in #cricket – stories from the global game that never make the headlines:

🏏 Writing for the Wisden Almanack and others;
🏏 A book, Getting Out, about Ukrainian cricket;
🏏 Podcasts, talks & interviews.

See, hire and connect with me here ⬇️
jonathancampion.com/cricket

17.09.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very interesting and worth sharing…

17.09.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Played there! Glorious spot…

17.09.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah - but they will look a lot more fuckable.

16.09.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3

Absolutely next year! Can't wait to meet you in a remote outfield somewhere...

15.09.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Ben Watson moments after scoring the winning runs for the Captain Scott Invitation XI against United Oxford Hospitals CC

Ben Watson moments after scoring the winning runs for the Captain Scott Invitation XI against United Oxford Hospitals CC

Poignant moment in the year for me, cricket bag has been put away. That's the end of the summer, and what a glorious one it's been. Will miss the @csixi.bsky.social crew through the winter, to play for this team means the world to me. Here's me moments after hitting the winning runs against UOHCC

15.09.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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