Andrew Thorpe
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Optimistic & positive. Historian. Eckington. Dronfield, Sheffield. Leeds. Wednesdayite. Derbyshire cricket. Labour. Cleckheaton. Ex-Exeter. Own views.
Yorkshire and Derbyshire
Joined January 2012
@fredfertang I saw Sadiq play for Pakistan v Derbyshire at Chesterfield that year - the first cricket match I ever went to. With my Grandad - I was 9. After that, I was hooked on cricket, and Derbyshire, for life - and have always had a soft spot for Pakistan ever since!
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@The_Forty_Four The commentary was shocking throughout but this was undoubtedly the low point.
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@Jasper1098470 @USA_Polling @jamesjohnson252 Indeed. Who? It’s not really for me to choose a winner. But someone needs to!
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@butcher_roland No problem at all mate. You were such a great player. I wish we’d had you playing for Derbyshire!
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I didn’t ever expect to be retweeting Bill Kristol, but this is so sharply relevant that I thought it appropriate to do so! Zhdanov was a shocker. Is DJT a Staljn equivalent?
Oh God, American Zhdanovism. Wiki: Zhdanovism was a Soviet cultural doctrine developed in 1946. Under this policy artists who failed to comply with the government's wishes risked persecution...Part of Zhdanovism was a campaign against 'cosmopolitanism'.
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RT @implausibleblog: Kemi Badenoch humiliates herself over the Chagos islands at PMQs She started by criticising Labour's action on the Ch…
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RT @ArtsandHums: We are glad to see that the AHA letter to the Guardian is in the online edition this evening. Thanks to all our associatio…
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This was the first serious bookshop I ever used and it was wonderful. As an A-level student from Dronfield in the late 1970s I found it totally fascinating and engrossing. It played a big part in pushing me towards the career as an academic historian that has followed!
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