#OnThisDay 1936: 'Blackshirt' responds to the Battle of Cable Street. Worth remembering that the author of the front page article, John Beckett, started political life as an MP on the left of the Labour Party.

Photos from the South Wales Cricket Association awards evening and dinner. Proudly receiving their awards from SWCA President Robert Croft and former England cricket captain David Gower are Ted Jones for the division's top wicket taker and skipper Adam Shaw for the most dismissals. Da iawn bois!

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Colour schemes of British political parties when they decide to go after the Jews...

All timer headline

Just stumbled across a pic of me at the South Wales Cricket Association Awards back in 2024 with Crofty and Ramps. Not seen this one until today!

"Killing Hasan in full public view would make him a martyr on a bigger scale than any suicide attack ever could: there would be footage of the US state killing him, available for use by any recruiter, at any time. To call it a gift to the USA’s enemies would be the understatement of the century."

Hegseth's firing squad shows the cruelty at the heart of Trump's White House

Donald Trump's defence chief wants to add the USA back to a list that presently comprises only Iran and Afghanistan

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A year on from Cable Street, #OnThisDay 1937, here's the Blackshirt political cartoon take on protests against their marches in the East End of London. From Mosley's newspaper, 'Action'

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Oof. That’s a pretty brutal opening paragraph in the Times sketch on Polanski and the Holborn and St Pancras by-election…

The Green Party need to kick out the antisemites and get back to what the party was supposed to be all about: Opposing solar farms and high speed rail.

#OnThisDay 1945: Evening Standard report on the legendary cricket writer, E.W. (Jim) Swanton's experience in Japanese POW camps after being captured at Singapore.

Film of the Day Chunking Express (Hong Kong, 1994) www.saintvespaluus.co.uk/film-61-72/c...

Chungking Express / Film (61 - 72) | Saint Vespaluus

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🤣👏 @mrjohncrace.bsky.social

1,000+ years of fucking loving sheep and wool. Fuck yeah baby! People say they're worried about this country but look at this.

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 3d ago

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

something very funny about the Bayeux Tapestry getting 5 stars after 940 years, as if Bishop Odo of Bayeux has been sat at home all this time waiting for the review, absolutely raging - "I gave that Guardian journalist a press comp on OPENING NIGHT for god's sake"

This text on defining "semites" (itself a weirdly 19th century racialist enterprise) was attached to the original draft of the Zionism is Racism resolution passed by the Green Party. It reveals the Greens to be both racist and dishonest.

Odds on her ending up as a Trump pick for the Supreme Court? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution

Experts and lawyers called the apparent recovery unprecedented, noting she is believed to be the only known person to survive a lethal injection.

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“When the President walks it, it’s not a tightrope”

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 4d ago

Well I guess that's one way of putting it...

#OnThisDay 1981: Keith Waite’s cartoon for the Daily Mirror on the assassination of Egypt’s President Sadat

Reminded of a letter from Christopher Hitchens about BAZO (the British Anti-Zionist Organization) and @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social back in a 1980 edition of the New Statesman

David Aaronovitch@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 5d ago

A free 2000 word post on the sad irrelevant history of the 'Zionism is racism' debate davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-anti-z...

Not saying the cricket club chair was pleased with the Scotland result but…

✅ it is indeed the then recently crowned Wimbledon men’s champ, Jimmy Connors

Alwyn Turner@alwynturner.bsky.social · 4d ago

Jimmy Connors?

Pub sports quiz question. Who’s this, having a go at cricket in a London park in July 1974?

Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:

Adam Macqueen@adammacqueen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wow. And just *after* Private Eye has gone to press. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir John Major, normally someone I consider broadly sane, on the death of Jeffrey Archer: “We have lost a man who lived one of the most remarkable lives of our age" Fucker’s clearly confused him with Jofra Archer. Or maybe Mani from the Stone Roses.

I’m a bit surprised this got past the Telegraph’s editorial policy.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d ago

'What Tucker does not understand about the War is that it impoverished us, yes, but it also united and redefined us. Arguably, it civilised the whole continent, exposing racism as evil, Darwinian ethics as the road to Hell. We favour common security not out of wokeness but from bitter experience.'

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

Spent much of today going through old copies of Free Palestine, the PLO newspaper edited in Britain by Louis Eaks of the Young Liberals in the 1970s and 1980s. Two things struck me….