Patrick Corbett

@JohnBAllen18 @fredfertang I saw some of it too and remember seeing Holding bowl Greig of the notorious grovel comment, which I see he did cheaply in both innings : espncricinfo.com/series/west-in…

@fredfertang Superb bowling on a totally unresponsive track for a quick. I went to 2 days of this Test, in that most glorious of all summers.

With, perhaps, a sub conscious nod in the direction of John Carlos and Tommie Smith this is an understandably elated Michael Holding at the Oval in 1976 after the 22 year old had taken 8-92 and 6-57 to help his side to a crushing 231 run victory over Tony Greig's England

Impatience is growing in the U.S. Senate over sanctions against russia. A bipartisan bill from Senators Lindsey Graham (R) and Richard Blumenthal (D) already has 81 backers out of 100. In today’s Washington, that’s a supermajority miracle. 1/n

🔊 Factories and consumers in China helped turn the iPhone maker into a $3 trillion giant. Now, geopolitical tensions are straining the relationship. In this episode of The Big View podcast, author Patrick McGee explains why there’s no easy way out reut.rs/3FfTgf7

The pathologising of gambling is the untold story of the past few years’ attacks on betting and those who bet, writes @stephenpollard thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-202…

I have my first foray into broadcast journalism coming out next week, with Anatomy of a Firetrap - a dive into the building safety crisis and how we got here for Radio 4's File on 4. It's a Radio Times "pick of the week", which is nice!

Israeli settlers, backed by the Israeli military, are violently attacking Bedouin farmers in the Jordan Valley. Their goal is clear: to drive Palestinians off their land and steal it. These attacks show Israel’s total disregard for Palestinian life. ow.ly/FjgU50VEKew

I don’t know who needs to see this but

I’m coming off X now for a few weeks, for a joyful family event. Hopefully, the CCRC has enough information to refer the Letby case back to the Court of Appeal, and she is granted an appeal. I will continue to campaign for this when I return, using journalism (which I am paid for) and documentary and podcast appearances (which I am not). More widely, I think there needs to be an inquiry into the variable standards of neonatal and maternity care accross the NHS . We should all campaign for decent care for the most vulnerable at the start of their lives, and a culture that allows NHS staff to own up to and learn from human errors, without being sacked or sued. However, until we have sufficient staff of the right seniority and skill mix to cope with the complexity and volume of the workload, we will never have a safe NHS for all.

The banned "Dead Loop" of Olga Korbut in the 1972 Olympics.  It was the first and last time the trick was documented.

Strong line form Nissan's Alan Johnson. "Simple fact is we (UK) are too expensive. Sunderland is most efficient plant Nissan has but once you've paid your elec, gas, NICs etc we are too expensive - any industrial strategy that doesn't tackle that is a waste of time.

@WG_RumblePants I was there as a boy in 1956 when Lindwall bowled Len Hutton in the first over for a duck.

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is Arundel in Sussex

Extraordinary scorecard, the innings lasted 68 overs and the follow-on avoided with the last pair ( Turner and Pridgeon together)

London is famous for its garden squares, laid out by private developers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Why did they do this? A short thread.

Meet Sister Rosetta Thorpe. She was known as the "Godmother of rock" and was the inspiration for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash

100s of MEPs & ex-MEPs across the EU will be thinking of Le Pen verdict tonight: "There but the grace of God...". Any half-decent political journalist knows parties across the EU, including UK, have been misuing Euro Parlt money for decades for domestic party purposes.

@artinsociety Retrospective of Tirzah Garwood's work is at the Dulwich Picture Gallery currently

Versatile British artist Tirzah Garwood painted this ‘Springtime of Flight’ when she was in a nursing home in the last year of her life, a year of extraordinary artistic productivity that she described as “the happiest year of her life” (1950)

@CricketopiaCom @BrianLara It was indeed a match-winning innings by Brian Lara in a very tight game but he was badly dropped by Healy, so not faultless. #cricket

Lara's Greatest #OnThisDay in 1999, @BrianLara played his best test innings. Chasing 307 in the fourth innings, West Indies were 8 down for 248 but Lara held his nerves and added 54 & 9* runs with Ambrose & Walsh respectively to win the match by 1 wicket.

I've found the hill I will die on, and it's the difference between 'uninterested' and 'disinterested'. Both are valuable and meaningful words in their own right! With subtly different meanings! We need them to be used correctly!

A postcard from 1904 of WG Grace batting for London County at Crystal Palace