Rob Hook

BREAKING : This is absolute cinema 🍿 Journalist : Trump wants help from Europe to open Strait of Hormuz French Gen. Richoux 🇫🇷 : "He can go Fúck himself" 🔥😂 "He wanted to invade Greenland and now he is begging for help from Europe" 🤣 This war is now isolating Trump 🗿

And you thought that Finn Allen innings was the best cricketing contribution you’d see this week…

@SavageSports_ O line all day. Left side is a sieve. Followed by Onwenu deciding not to block on the pick 6

I don’t know who I blame the most right now 1. Josh McDaniels 2. O line 3. Drake Maye ?

Well 1,061 certainly didn’t stay ‘a little back’. That’s the number of non-American NATO troops who were killed in support of US actions in Afghanistan. He really is ungracious, ignorant and uncaring on such matters. Especially unbecoming from someone who managed to avoid military service himself.

Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers just completely eviscerated, Donald Trump and ICE over the murder of Renee Good. "What happened in Minnesota was straight up murder, in my opinion. This lady was probably trying to go home and she didn't make it home. The whole ice thing, it's a travesty… I keep thinking about kids and when I grew up, the president was always the role model. And I think about that and the effect of being a bully, lying — how's that good for our kids?"

“If you’re not willing to run in all day for your team… don’t bother!” @jimmy9 Tailenders Ashes review is live now on BBC Sport YouTube, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.

As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent eight-page special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record. ➡️ Read for free on our website now: private-eye.co.uk/special-report…

Genius….on and off the park….lose count of how many times Ricky has done this

💬 "Through that Jamie Smith dismissal, it sums up a lot of how England have played this Test series." Justin Langer's thoughts as Australia retain the Ashes on home soil. 📺 Watch #TheAshes LIVE on TNT Sports and discovery+

@NoContextCounty Duckett Crawley Hameed Root Brook Jacks Stokes Foakes Carse Archer Tongue

If the Ashes was to restart tomorrow with everyone fit what would your XI be?

Hameed - 1258 FC runs @ 66.21 last season Dom Sibley - 1274 FC runs @ 60.66 James Rew - 1053 FC runs @ 45.78 Tom Abell - 1022 FC runs @ 51.10 Jack Leach - 52 FC wickets @ 22.78 Ollie Robinson - 39 FC wickets @ 24.74 Craig Overton - 33 FC wickets @ 25.39 Just FYI.

Ben Stokes is doing that slightly unglamorous captain thing in this Ashes. The bit that rarely shows up neatly in the results column... He bowled 19 overs, then walked out to bat in 17th over today & then he stayed there for two full sessions. It felt less like a batting innings & more like a statement of intent(or lack of?) delivered with tired legs... Across this Ashes, Stokes has already faced 373 balls. That’s more than anyone else from either side. No one has crossed 300 except him. For a side built on Bazball momentum & tempo, that number matters. It shows a captain willing to absorb pressure, not just dish it out... Here’s the part that really lands. Stokes alone has faced 21.6 percent of all deliveries bowled at England in this series. Add Joe Root into the mix & two of them account for 38.4 percent of England’s total balls faced... And this isn’t happening in isolation from the ball. Stokes has bowled 51 overs in this series as well. In 2025, he is England’s leading wicket taker with 28 wickets at 24.57 average... The runs may not yet scream Ashes-defining. But leadership isn’t always loud. Sometimes it looks like fatigue, time at the crease & a captain quietly deciding that if someone has to take the hit, it might as well be him...

@tkyles39 Literally hit Henry in the hands?

The #Patriots go three-and-out following a sack on Jared Wilson and an inaccurate throw from Drake Maye + Hunter Henry drop Outside of TreVeyon Henderson's TD, it's been an awful 2nd half for NE

England has lost a wicket every 29 balls in this Ashes series. @SEN_Cricket @1116sen #Ashes

Serious thought. The word "Bazball" has become a distraction. A smokescreen for what we're really watching. Average bowling, reckless batting, terrible catching. It doesn't need a funky label; call it what it is, rank bad cricket.

STEVE SMITH IS OUT! 🙌 What a take from Will Jacks! 🔥 Watch #TheAshes LIVE on TNT Sports and discovery+ 📺

I hope Harry Brook feels ashamed of himself. Of course, he is a fantastic batsman but when playing for England you should also have a good sense of responsibility. Brook had little of that in Perth or here at the Gabba if he had had, England might now have been sitting on a winning score and his mate, Joe Root,would have had an easier journey to this long-awaited hundred.

I'm hoping to unite Left and Right - they'll all hate my piece in today's Sunday Times, saying that successive Budgets have overtaxed the highest-earning 20%, and under-taxed both the median earner and the richest 0.1%.thetimes.com/money/tax/arti…

FIFA and 2026 World Cup tickets. Nasty work.

The Ukraine peace deal Steve Witkoff has ‘negotiated’ with Russia is seen in Kyiv as an all-out victory for Putin. Ukraine must lose half its army, accept the loss of Crimea and much of its eastern territory, and can’t join NATO. Russia rejoins the G-7 & its assets are unfrozen.