Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा

Bearing in mind this is the same Badenoch who signed off on branding for her pitch to become PM of "Britian" she may have benefitted from more English classes...

Does anyone else find it weird that when you’re flying in Europe (the mainland), the airport staff always ask if you can remove your Kara and always sigh or roll their eyes when you say no? Is it just outright lack of familiarity?

Enjoying the audiobook so far. Though I wish Chapter 1 had outlined the etymology of "Kali Yuga" rather than describing it as a self-described "super fascist's" term for the Dark Age... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

The thing with painting over zebra crossings to make St George’s Crosses that I don’t understand at all is: isn’t it super disrespectful to your flag to paint it somewhere people will literally trample on it?! 🤷🏾‍♂️

I am not Batman. I have no desire to be Batman. I will not be stepping in to "protect" goods that the retailer insured...

Like many bookworms, I have a (bad?) habit of buying more books than I can realistically read since my last trip to the bookstore. So it is that over 6 years have passed with “The Luminaries” sitting on my shelf. Having just finished Part 1 - it’s beautifully written. Delicate as the night sky.

God bless the Piccadilly Line train driver who held the northbound train at Finsbury Park for changers from the Victoria when there are severe delays and it was 12 minutes until the next one. #notallheroeswearcapes

Listed for PTPH at 10am. D is serving prisoner. D had his first appearance by CVP. For no discernible reason, listed for all parties to attend. D is serving in the Midlands. Matter listed in Kent. Informed by the cells that the ETA is 15:30.

This could have been avoided by producing D by CVP.

I did not have scores level as my prediction for the end of the first innings there…

So what do we call that then? The Bumrah Blast? The Bumrah Burst? Whatever you call it, that folks, is how you bowl on a flat pitch 😍😍

I’m only being semi facetious when I say this. Never mind intermediate courts and all that jazz. Let’s hold criminal trials in the Tower of London. There’s cells, it’s a military base so security is sorted, there’s room. It’s open to the public. What barrister wouldn’t want to appear there?

Jadeja ultimate trolling routine is my new favourite thing about day 1 of this test 😂😂

Will be interesting to see if the new ball is requested, or if Gill decides to stick with the old one…

I do agree! Though its been fun reading so many columns dedicated to the return of these two hahaha. I'm still recovering from Akash Deep's fifer at Edgbaston, which I think is probably one of the best perfomances I've ever seen.

Is the real subplot of the Lords Test just Bumrah v Archer? If so, looks like Reddy is gearing up to defang that narrative

Well there we go. What do I know lol. Excellent opening bowling by Siraj and Deep.

Brave of Gill to not chuck in the declaration after his 150. I’d back the bowlers to finish the job with a 592 run lead…

@vuelingairlines.bsky.social. Out of interest Vueling, what’s the point of wheeling my parents to the gate then leaving them there. Then asking us to leave them and sit in another area. How were they supposed to use the bathroom if they needed? Both flights, just terrible service.

@vuelingairlines.bsky.social - thanks for sending me from queue to queue despite being told my parents need wheelchair assistance. Thanks for making them stand in queues for over 85 mins only for the check in lady to tell us that you should have processed us first. Stay classy! 🤷🏾‍♂️👏🏾🤦🏾‍♂️

What a month of music already! Watched the inimitable Kailash Kher at the Royal Festival Hall to start the month, and have the legendary Gurdas Maan in the middle. All I need now is an equally exceptional act to close the month...

The thing about people losing their minds over Starmer’s pivot is that this is Labour through and through. The changes to British and Commonwealth Nationality were done by a Labour government. The Liverpool trade union colour bar was Labour etc etc. Plus ça change some might say 🤷🏾‍♂️

They do. It’s horribly common in the UK. I would actually find the the way you described less awful because it acknowledges the “u” in the transliteration. Also when I was younger it used to grate when commentators pronounced Irfan Pathan as “Err-fan”.

Fewer things grate on my soul more than hearing Urdu pronounced “err-doo”.

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

Nah. They closed Hammersmith Bridge to motor traffic because it had serious structural issues rendering it unsafe. It’s now safe enough for pedestrians and cyclists - but the barriers are likely for non-Londoners who don’t know/realise that Hammersmith Bridge is closed to motor traffic :)

Finding it more amusing than I probably should that the MAGA crew are only now just discovering that the head of something called The *Roman* Catholic Church, that has its own Nation City State isn’t “America First”. Who might have guessed this would be so? 😂

Is there any delivery company more unapologetically crappy than Evri? My heart sinks every time I see that’s the courier any retailer chooses…

Is there anything more annoying than companies that use automated option services that loop to "Have you heard of the internet? Goodbye."

Firstly: If I could solve the problem online, I'd not be calling (it's obvs quicker).

Secondly: Why can't there be an option to stay on to speak to a human?

EU proposes ending wolves' 'strictly protected' status in Europe BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission proposed on Friday making it easier to hunt wolves in Europe, citing their growing number and the threat they pose to livestock as reasons for downgrading t...

On Friday, the European Commission issued a proposal that would make it easier to hunt wolves in Europe. The proposal would align European Union laws with the Bern Convention, which decreased the status of wolves from "strictly protected" to "protected."