@AMP86793444 @WG_RumblePants For some of us it's weird that that a 19th century Doctor had the same name as an England cricketer!
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John Birch
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John Birch
@johnlbirch
Worked as a government librarian, teacher, cricket & rugby coach/writer, and in local government. Dedicated but slow parkrunner. Puzzled why anyone follows me!
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@WG_RumblePants I have never been able to dissociate John Snow from Cholera. Shouldn’t have learnt about it that early in life.
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John Snow seems to be England’s great forgotten strike bowler.
He played 49 Tests between 1965 and 1976, taking 202 wickets at an average of 26.66 and economy rate of 2.68.
In his 4 series against Australia, Snow was the leading England wicket-taker 3 times, and at home in 1968, he was 2nd.
EW Swanton wrote that he “had not seen an Englishman bowl either faster or better than Snow at Sydney since Tyson”.
Perhaps his career and achievements deserve a bit more recognition?
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@ArthurHowa61504 Yes, he seems to have been a bit of a rebel.
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@WG_RumblePants The cricketing poet. Not many fadt bowlers have published poetry.
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@QprEver What election?
They still have plenty of time to ensure there isn't one.
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🇬🇧 Do you agree that Labour is righyly going to be annihilated at the next General Election 🇬🇧
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@BenGrahamUK Also the third attempt to get it right, and that cost does not include the previous failed schemes.
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£1.5 billion for 21 miles of road.
That’s £70 million per mile for the A14 Cambridge–Huntingdon upgrade.
No tunnels. No megacity constraints. Just standard infrastructure.
This is why nothing gets built in Britain anymore.
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@koshercockney @NJ_Timothy Labour do not care about people in general because they rely on the Muslim vote now. Many of their leading ministers are totally dependent on Muslims to keep their seats.
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Out of interest. I wanna hear from my followers.
Where do you stand on @NJ_Timothy’s comments?
I think Labour have misjudged this one by attacking him, it’s going to backfire massively on them (if they weren’t hated enough already) - I don’t think they realised how many people probably agree.
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
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@benonwine All bank note designs are retired eventually. Bring back Wellington I say!
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Less than 10 days to go for the IPL 🤩
Tell us how excited you are for this season
#IPL2026 #CricketTwitter
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If you want to know what Nelson thought of Muslims, you may want to factor in Nelson's column.
See that thing on his hat? It is a 'chelengk'. Nelson was the first non-Muslim to be awarded one - as thanks for his victory in the Battle of the Nile. It was gifted to him by Sultan Selim III, who was literally the Caliph at the time. Nelson was so proud of it, as well as wearing it on his hat, he added it to his coat of arms.
It is now the literal highest point of Nelson's column - a gift from the leader of the Muslim world to a devout Christian.
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
What we witnessed in London at the historic Trafalgar Square, in a country built on Judeo-Christian values, was a group of people attempting dominance over our capital city and our culture. We are not going to surrender everything that was built over centuries and defended at great cost in two world wars for us to be a free, independent nation. The British people will not put up with this any longer — simple as.
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@qikipedia IIRC Welsh does not have a single word for "yes" or "no".
Many languages are the same.
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Kusunda, an endangered Nepalese language, has no words for yes or no.
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@GlobeEyeNews So about 12,000 people didn't vote for the official candidates.
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BREAKING:
Kim Jong‑un officially wins North Korea’s parliamentary election with 99.93% of the vote.
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@MediaSOI Free speech is allowed as long as it is the right sort of free speech.
What is the right sort free speech? The free speech the government likes.
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Starmer says the “Islamophobia” law won’t harm free speech
Tory MP criticises a mass open air Islamic prayer session in London
Starmer - “He must be sacked”
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@JordanEVGuy And charging so much per Kwh that it negates any financial advantages EV is meant to provide.
Rich people with their own driveways get cheap travel, poorer people without a driveway get shafted.
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This doesn’t look like much, but it changes everything.
What you’re looking at is an evpzee lamppost charger.
It is the smartest solution to one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption.
A standard street lamp, quietly turned into an EV charger.
No digging up roads, it is installed in just 30 minutes.
No huge infrastructure projects, a full street can be electrified in a matter of hours.
Manufactured and assembled in the UK and fully OCPP.
Using what’s already there.
For millions of people across the UK, especially those without driveways, this is the difference between “I can’t have an EV” and “actually…I can.”
It’s easy to overlook innovations like this because they’re not flashy.
No 350kW ultra-rapid chargers.
No massive charging hubs.
Just practical, scalable, everyday infrastructure doing exactly what it needs to do.
And that’s the point.
The EV transition will be be driven by everyone having the ability to charge when they need to.
Simple.
Effective.
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@WG_RumblePants Perhaps spectators should be encouraged to bring a ball with them.
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Please not the Kookaburra! Anything but the Kookaburra!!! 😱
Lawrence Booth@BoothCricket
EXCLUSIVE 🏏 The transit of English cricket's new batch of Dukes balls has been disrupted by the war in the Middle East. Only half the usual amount are expected to be available at the start of the season. ECB admit: "It's been a wake-up call." dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/…
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@RudolphUkka @simongerman600 Rods, poles, and perches are different names for the same thing, of course.
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@simongerman600 Actually Simon, your European ancestors (blame the Romans?) used to use rutes, hufes, morgens, and virgates, not hectares. Australians used rods, poles, and perches. Does that make more sense to you?
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Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…
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@chrisbriem @simongerman600 Allotments still are.
Councils pretend they are now metric, but as most allotments were set out 50+ years ago on the ground they are still square perches (or rods or poles, depending where you are).
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@simongerman600 A chain x a furlong (so a cricket pitch x 1/8 of a mile) or 22 x 220 yards. About half a football pitch.
Based on the amount of land a team of oxen could plough in a day, with a chain being the width of the average strip in the pre-enclosure open field and the furlong the length.
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