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Always wanted a pinned tweet that sums me up.
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Thorough as always. The candidate summaries are admirably succinct, such as this one on Grant Shapps - ‘Known as a tech whizz in the Tory party because he can use excel to make lists and has a folding phone.’
New election briefing just out:
A big round of seat previews today. Finishing off the capital by looking at the central London boroughs.
And starting on the east of England with two commuter counties - Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.
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I love it when DAG does a long post. And this is well worth reading. Coruscating on the police closing ranks and thereby losing the trust of those that- til now- had no reason to doubt them.
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@BenRamanauskas
He wasn’t hated, he got mocked for traipsing around trying to find a safe seat, the party wouldn’t parachute him into one, so he spent his time being turned down by the associations. If we had PR then the we’d be more able to select based on talent rather than just being local.
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These signs in parks...
We spotted these signs while out on our daily walk today at the Racecourse and thought they were fab! 🌈
Have you spotted these or any other signs around Northamptonshire?
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@DamCou
They've also switched Mauritania and Western Sahara, and given British Somaliland to Italy. They’ve also left out Sao Tome & Principe. Which is why that map wasn’t used when I did A level geography.
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If you’re interested in government Sam’s substack is a bargain. People like him should be paid advisors. And I’m pleased he’s picked out the importance of local authorities, less centralisation would cheer me up.
New post just gone out
"Preparing for Government"
With the Tories in disarray what should Labour be doing to prepare for the radical reforms we need to get the country back on track.
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A few thousand spectators
@NorthantsCCC
today to watch the most thrilling game I’ve seen in a while. As
@selvecricket
puts it, the List A format allows for a narrative, and today the narrative was gripping, and most of the crowd stayed to the last gasp at around 6.40pm.
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@lordbonkers
Neither of Northampton’s Tory MPs have tweeted. Although having checked, I see Andrew Lewer is banging on about defeating communist dictatorships. No comment about all the non Communist dictatorships treating their populations abominably.
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"Those besuited traitors should be donating to Ukrainian humanitarian and military fundraisers every penny made from serving the Russian elite’s 30-year looting spree."
@edwardlucas
has had the measure of Putin for decades, now completely vindicated.
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He told me the other week he was playing, thought he was winding me up. Top bloke, give him a free lifetime pass
@NorthantsCCC
We are delighted to annouce the signing of Wendal Pemberton for the Keogh XI on the 21st July 🏏
Come on down and see the true Northampton legend and get a bit of Northampton Love. Wendal! 🏵️❤️🚩
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@JamesFitzJourno
@stevewebb1
My understanding is to try and protect the value of the pound, so we don’t get a currency crisis along with everything else.
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Starting my
@cricketnosh
season the right way. Smoked mackerel pate, then herb crusted fish and a glass of Merlot at the new pavilion
@NorthantsCCC
- very tasty and decent value for £26. You’d get a burger for that at the Oval.
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Who can disagree with
@imVkohli
and his 33 million twitter followers? Yes, 33 million.
Virat Kohli, the most influential player on the planet, is against The Hundred and has now said the same about four-day Tests...
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@portraitinflesh
Odd how all their gender dysphoria suddenly disappears when it comes to mentioning their “girldick”
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@LukeDyks
@DrSextonGreen
It’s the power thing again, isn’t it? If some seedy old devil hasn’t got the clout he wouldn’t dare to, if it’s someone roughly on your level it’s not so much of an issue. It still sticks with you, mind, but it’s the power dynamics that make it so painful for the victims.
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Interesting as ever. The point that struck me is that those who have built up a following elsewhere via Twitter, and aren’t therefore bothered by its probable decline under Musk, are pulling up the drawbridge on equally talented folk who aren’t so far down that route.
Twitter is a dystopian hellscape. There's a nonzero chance Elon can improve it. And if he ends up destroying it, then we'll migrate to other, less toxic platforms.
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@Corbychris
@ratemyplatenow
What do you call the meal where you raid the fridge for cheese just before midnight as you want something to go with the port?
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He’s worked damn hard for that. Threw himself around in the field tirelessly too, well played and a positive for the future.
A maiden five-wicket haul for Alex Russell! 🏵️
Agar edges behind, sharp work from McManus. 👏
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From yesterday’s Times. Bedi was a feisty character, left Northants having told the board about themselves.
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‘Beware Brits bearing myths’-
@Frances_Coppola
on the stories that have made our politics toxic
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From PG Wodehouse “The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”
How did you hear about G.K. Chesterton? I'll retweet your answer.
—Editor
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So much time for Ken Clarke. If he’d become PM we’d be in much better shape.
former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke attacks the promise of massive tax cuts from most leadership candidates, calling it “populist nonsense”
@BBCNewsnight
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So called unfashionable county. Standing room only. Up the Steelbacks.
Wantage Road, you were something special this evening. 🥰
The
@VitalityBlast
is just outrageously good, isn't it?
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Love it- we should be "trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking via
@farnamstreet
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When scrolling on here, I click on 'show additional replies with offensive content', is it just me who finds them disappointingly un-offensive?
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Why are the WW1 emperor titles still a thing? I want to hear from the alcohol Kaiser and Sultan Mehmed V of the War on Drugs.
🔴 Red Wall voters are crying out for restrictions to “protect them” from junk food, the Government’s former food tsar has said
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@RevJoeHaward
@JamesFitzJourno
@BylineTV
Very fair assessment. Showed this to the other half who laughed and said it was succinct.
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Treat day in Northampton. Calories galore. No hoisin crispy owl available today, however.
On the bright side, no ‘protestors’. This is actually a nice town to live in, so glad I chose here.
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Went to my first
@NorthantsCCC
supporters club lunch today. It was packed, over 119 people I think. Shows the relationship between the club and the season ticket holders. Good also to hear
@ggwarren_
speak candidly about the future of the game, and to meet
@finbarr57
properly.
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@DamCou
FDR- ‘So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself’. DJCP- ‘that’s ridiculous, you should get antidepressants immediately.’
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Thanks to
@leicsccc
- counties matter Cc
@AnnieChave
BREAKING: 18-year-old legspinning allrounder Rehan Ahmed has been added to England’s Test squad for the tour of Pakistan
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African Caribbean cricket day at Wantage Rd, hope
@NorthantsCCC
do this next year too. Only mistake I made was not photographing the food for
@cricketnosh
. I was too busy eating it.
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@CaribCricket
He was really good when he was at Northamptonshire, even though he found the April weather a bit rebarbative.
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It contains the usual pithy summaries of the candidates, plus this:
‘As you can see Merseyside is another hotbed of factional wars, as with many parts of inner London, the total dominance of the party creates the conditions for it’.
Which is a fear for the future government.
New election briefing just out:
Previews for every seat in the North West. All 73 of them.
33 are notionally Tory at the moment. Will any be left on Friday morning?
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Disappointed that the Derren Brown thing tonight didn’t conclude by waking me up from the hypnotic sleep induced in 2016, to tell me the last four years have been a feverish trance.
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@WG_RumblePants
@OutsideCricket
Ooh, contentious. I voted ‘never’, but on the remarkable off chance he gives a grovelling, sincere apology and works for charities that help abused victims, I’d change that to a ‘maybe’.
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A good win for
@NorthantsCCC
tonight. 1st quarter final for 4 years, & a first win against the Bears after 7 previous defeats. And
@SaintsRugby
paraded their trophy at half time, to the warm applause of the crowd. A good turnout, for a Thursday evening, took ages to get a pint.
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@jamesatkins
@DeborahMeaden
Rightly so. They’re a bunch of reactionary twats out of their depth.
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@Samfr
Can’t believe it’s been two years since you woke up and asked twitter to entertain you. Hope you have many, many more years entertaining and informing us.
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A good breakfast this morning
@cafetracknn
served by lovely people. Help make them busier, folks.
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Justin Onuekwusi promoted to head of retail investments at LGIM via
@profadviser
- congratulations
@JustinOnuekwusi
much deserved.
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Very enjoyable first day of the season at Wantage Road. Emilio’s highest 1st class score, decent lunch, and got the first batting point just as Wendell came in for a natter.
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Not impressed to see West Northamptonshire Council in Private Eye again. I thought the point of getting rid of the old councils following bankruptcy was to start afresh and better. Same old waste of taxpayers money it seems.
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Currently reading the Northamptonshire CCC pre AGM report. It has
@oldmanradd
down as the ‘Activist’. A typo or recognition for world-class chuntering?
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The Northants live stream commentators don’t know much, it’s a Gallone’s van, not Mr Whippy. Back to the BBC commentary for me.
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When Johnson’s ministers had quit because he ignored complaints about sex pest Chris Pincher, he appointed Peter Bone as a minister, totally ignoring the long-standing complaints about him. Dysfunctional government.
NEW: Tory MP Peter Bone faces 6-week suspension from the House of Commons after ruling by Independent Expert Panel.
Panel found he has "committed many varied acts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct.”
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Bailey achieved something unique amongst central bankers, completely unanimous disapproval of a decision from finance Twitter.
Andrew Bailey rules out extending Bank of England intervention
Good luck with that
He is so useless how does he know?
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He was such a good man, good to chat with on here about poetry (big Larkin appreciator) and it’s deeply sad he was essentially snuffed out by trolls and a hopeless employer.
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Nice to see the Hall of Fame extended onto another wall, with Jumble and the greatest captain of my lifetime, Geoff Cook. Also on the Durham Hall of Fame, I think.
@oldmanradd
will say if I’m misguided here.
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My first brunch
@cafe_matchbox
for yonks. I felt better for that. Give your independent cafes and retailers some support, they need it now.
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Shops preemptively boarding up in case of
#FaragesRiots
Depressing. Far right troublemakers aren’t welcome here.
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Superb. An old mate of mine used to grade hangovers- eg the ‘angry cat trying to get out through your eyeballs hangover,’ the ‘vague, zen-like hangover’ and worst of all, the ‘dinner with Anthony Burgess hangover’. I guess this is where he got it from.
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Did Gloucestershire bat on too long? Whatever the case, it was a nice day to be watching county cricket, and tomorrow should be a good day too. I just hope that soon we get a coach as good as Mark Alleyne, you can see the change in their attitudes already.
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“Middlesex's bid to become the most dysfunctional club in county cricket - a highly competitive field - has taken a leap forward with the appointment of the man charged with finding a new chair of the club as the new chair of the club.”
Middlesex appoint man initially charged with appointing new chair as new chair | The Cricketer
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Bloody typical, I spend all season watching them get spanked, and the day they do the spanking I’m stuck in the office.
𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧! 🎉
Jack White picks up a 5th first-class five wicket haul and wraps up victory by an innings and 39 runs. 🏵️
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Had a look at Threads, where the righteous have stopped the wicked and thoughtless Sarah Millican "cheering people up" at Christmas. Well done guys.
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A pleasant way of spending a Sunday afternoon, watching
@NorthantsCCC
vs
@lancscricket
U19 match. If someone could direct me to a scorecard that would be appreciated. Took me ages to realise the self-effacing chap looking after his toddler was
@flintoff11
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Thriller. First defeat at home for Lancs for 26 matches, first time we’ve beaten them since Noah was a lad, or something. Gutsy performance by the Steelbacks.
STEELBACKS WIN! 🛡️
Just making it interesting. 😉
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@thhamilton
@FurnaceFear
He’s also a thumping crook.
Tyler Kay, 26, Northampton. Today facing up to 7 years in prison for inciting racism and hatred online as per Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986. Prior to this he ran a scam company "Infinite Computing" that took several £100,000 in preorders for computer parts.
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Good evening
#Northantshour
- just popping in to give a few thanks/shoutouts - firstly to
@Food4TNorthants
who stocked me up well the other week. Well worth a visit.
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Brilliant performance, and thank you to
@oldmanradd
for the commentary, which was such good company this afternoon. Fingers crossed for seeing this IRL ere long.
The fields are green, the skies are blue... 🎶
WHAT A CHASE! 🍾
Ricardo Vasconcelos posts a stunning career best as Northamptonshire win by 7 wickets!
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@JWR_UK
They all play up to it whenever they can, Reagan was as bad. Oddly enough, they never play up their English antecedents.
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@AndyGilder
Ahaha. Brilliant. It’s made me go and look at Howard for the first time in years. He’s turning into Charlie Chuck.
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Another fine thread to be bookmarked for when I need to get more depressed than I am normally.
In June 2016, no one knew about No Deal AKA the WTO Option. Almost no one was calling for it. I had published something in 2015 about what would happen in a No Deal situation. It was not until June 2016 that people picked up on it and the FT phoned me. No one understood. THREAD
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A lot of hard yakka for the Northamptonshire bowlers today. Interesting take on the Kookaburra ball by IDK Salisbury on commentary, but it was dry old stuff for the spectator.
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A bunch of goons and online hatemongers haven’t only caused worry and fear to business owners, it’s cost them money and the state a fortune. Certain people should be held financially liable.
#FarageRiots
In pictures: Scared business owners in Northampton boarded up shops ahead of planned far-right protest
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@JonnElledge
Louis Barfe’s been calling that rancid clown out for years. Just entertaining myself revisiting it.
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The chocolate counter
@stGilesCheese
is excellent, and for sheer overdose you can pick up a
@BrooklynBrownee
from
@cafe_matchbox
👍🏼
Now we don’t need a reason to enjoy a sweet treat but as Sunday is International Chocolate Day, it would be rude not to indulge. Where do you get your local chocolate treats from?
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@TheBarmyArmy
The season’s over? I was hoping that Northamptonshire had two more matches, away to Somerset and home to Essex. Oh dearie me.
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@DavidPenney10
In 28 years of dealing with claims I’ve never known a life policy not pay out. & so many times it’s saved families from penury.
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As ever, cracking work by the rating agencies.
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Lovely chat from
@oldmanradd
& the twitterless Phil Rowe on BBC cricket about Allan Donald playing league cricket in Northampton and tearing the place up, wounding batsmen and all that caper.
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Anyway, well done to Laurence Fox for all 714 of his votes in the Uxbridge by-election. The people have spoken, and they’ve said ‘you’re an idiot’.
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Re tweeted by a pornbot with one follower. Be still, my endorphin rush.
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Listening, as ever, to Andrew Radd on commentary. Phil Rowe as summariser. I’m wondering if the loss of Phil’s avuncular presence plus David Ripley’s guiding skills leaves a gap in the emotional intelligence as well as the cricket intelligence.
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@AMP86793444
John Bass, Hector Beers, Tim Lamb, Josh Cobb (roll), Ben Duck(ett), Gordon Garlick, Reg Partridge, Tom Sole, Frederick Stocks. (All Northants players.)
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Good to see
@WNLibDems
at the forefront of the March against domestic violence in Northampton today
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🎶 It's the same the whole world over,
It's the poor what gets the blame,
It's the rich what gets the pleasure,
Isn't it a blooming shame? 🎵
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@JonnElledge
Bless you both. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so upset by the loss of someone I’ve never met, so it’s impossible to gauge the levels you must be feeling.
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@Mortgage_Stu
@bbclaurak
This song also has the lyrics...
"Go on now, go,
Walk out the door.
Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore."
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So true. It’s the ‘two blokes who are mates and *banter* with each other’ format that’s really tiresome. Which is why, despite having subscribed to loads, I still end up listening to BBC radio.
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Annie Lennox trending. Wondered why. It’s because she wore a face mask and every wingnut on twitter is getting bent out of shape. Anyone got a blue sky code?
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