Back to Duncan Hamilton's biography of Neville Cardus, The Great Romantic. Anyone who believes gamesmanship is something new in cricket should read this description of one of Cardus's favourite characters, Emmott Robinson of Yorkshire:When Lancashire required two wickets in three over to gain precious first-innings points, Robinson plunged into defensive mode, hiding the bat so well behind his pads that he seemed to be playing without one. All went according to plan until five minutes to six. Misjudging the line, he got himself trapped leg before. "He did not immediately 'walk'," said Cardus. "He cocked his ear at the umpire ...
It's just six weeks on Saturday until we all gather in Bournemouth for Autumn Conference. Over the past few days, the party has published the final agenda, Conference reports and the outcome of the Policy Review. You can read them all here. The four days of Conference will see debates on topics ranging from youth work to climate change to emergency care, transport, reducing harm from gambling, helping contaminated blood victims, giving Ukrainian children certainty in the UK and protecting women's rights across the globe. On Monday afternoon the Policy Review will be debated. This is the outcome of a ...
I leave Leicestershire for five minutes and look what happens. Our Conservative police and crime commissioner Rupert Matthews has defected to Reform UK. Matthews, a publisher of books on esoteric subjects, got high on his own supply at some point and became a lecturer with the International Metaphysical University - it sometimes styled him as "Professor" Rupert Matthews. There used to be a video of him introducing his course "PAR 501 Understanding Our Paranormal Universe" on the IMU website. That's been taken down, but you can still view an extract from it online. The Liberal Democrats greeted the news of ...
I was listening a while back to someone on a video online. He spoke about faith. About family. About freedom. He spoke about personal responsibility. And about the need for a strong, resilient and just society. I can get behind all of these things. But he then segued, without the slightest pause, into how abortion is evil and how anyone who thinks otherwise is going straight to hell. As someone who thinks that the topic of abortion is actually a little more nuanced than this, I was already preparing myself for my fiery fate. Because the moment this American gentleman ...
The New York Times wins our Headline of the Day Award. It's believed the Mounties are looking for the osprey responsible.
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 4 AUGUST 2025 Scottish and Southern Energy Networks Elmwood Cable Renewal Scheme - temporary traffic lights and road closure from Tuesday 4 March for 19 weeks: Ancrum Road (at Peel Street) - temporary traffic lights for 2 weeks;Tullideph Road (City Road to Greenbank Place) - closed westbound for one week[Please see our previous Facebook posts regarding the delays to this].Blackness Road (at Glenagnes Road) - temporary traffic lights Tuesday 5 August for 2 weeks for Scottish Water work. Forthcoming Roadworks Perth Road (at Rockfield Street) - temporary traffic ...
One of the drivers behind Reform's rise in the polls is the disproportionate amount of coverage they are getting in the media for their core messages. Inevitably, and quite rightly, there has been pushback. The Mirror reports that thousands of people have complained to Sky News about "excessive" coverage of Nigel Farage 's Reform UK after the party set up its own broadcast studio to pump out slick, TV-style videos online. The paper says that twice last week, Sky News broadcast the live feed from Reform's studio, prompting campaigners to accuse them of "outsourcing editorial control" to Farage's far right ...
