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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 3d

Not that I've seen her much - don't have TV and can't abide QT - but when I have, I've found her full of studied self-projection. The type by whom those who rarely see/read good political journalism will be fooled. Makes her dosh, tho. She's no Lyse Doucet or Orla Guerin. Too plausible by half.

David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 4d

I can't make up my mind if Fiona Bruce is a light entertainment host entirely out of her depth and slavishly following orders or whether she is part of the knee-jerk right-wing cabal restricting opinion for blaantly political reasons. Thoughts?

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 5d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 5d

Impressed when I saw him last season.

Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 5d

Glad to report that that swift post-season foray to Clwyd worked well. From this summit, looking west, you may see Snowdon, 40-odd miles distant - but not on our two days, alas. We did tho briefly make out Cader Idris (last climbed 1981!) on the second day and no rain fell throughout - so no whinges

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 9d

Just setting off for two days' post-season escape. Walking/climbing in Clwydian Range limestone. Forecast very good. Should be rather better than on 1800-ft top of Shining Tor, Pennines last August. "Shining"! Pull the other one...

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 10d

Spent 1985-1989 nearby in Stepney, passing the mural in Cable Street on the way to the boozer. Wrote my first Cricketer piece on a battered typewriter in that squat - little could CMJ, then editor, have pictured it! But he gave me my first Telegraph assignments on stength of it. Rosen would approve.

Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 11d

In my father's memoir, he recounts the day he and my mother (Connie Isakofsky) took part in the Battle of Cable Street Oct 4 1936 (#otd)
I've recorded the book and it's up on Audible.
www.amazon.co.uk/Are-You-Stil...

Are You Still Circumcised?: East End Memories (Audio Download): Harold Rosen, Michael Rosen, Michael Rosen: Amazon.co.uk: Audible Books & Originals

www.amazon.co.uk

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes we all need a disused railway after a day in the gorge

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 12d

Pretty grim 10 days for Aus: the A team manages to lose a deciding 'Test' v India A by 5 wkts in Lucknow despite gaining a 1st-inns lead of no fewer than 226. Next, in Brisbane, their U-19 side loses by an innings in under 8 sessions to an India U-19 team that belts 428 runs at 5.25po. Future dodgy?

Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 14d

A friend recently forwarded this picture of my receding self, homeward bound, last winter. I wonder anyone could see this scene without wishing to walk that same path. Have just booked the four trains to get me back there come December, twenty hours after leaving St Pancras. Bugger Ryanair!

Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 14d

Autumn colours at Minninglow, site of one of Britain's most significant early neolithic chambered burial sites. Paused for some water there, as they no doubt did 6000 years before. Faragists no doubt fantasise they have some direct blood relationship! Bad news, lads: loads of mixed DNA since then.

Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 14d

Exactly, Marcus

Always suspect motives.

Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 19d

www.thetimes.com/article/679e... For the second time in five seasons this hack was able to cover the championship decider for the Times yesterday. This after 33 previous years' reporting that rarely offered a sniff. Giving up hope of ever seeing Northamptonshire prevail, though, I'm afraid.

Nottinghamshire win County Championship for first time since 2010

Haseeb Hameed ton seals county’s first triumph in 15 years as total of 300 against Warwickshire earns batting bonus point to make them unassailable at the top

www.thetimes.com

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 21d

Entirely echo the posts about the sad loss of Rob Steen. In my ten years working from London in the '90s, he and I were frequently in the same press box (and bar) and also shared the same publisher. A top man who was still offering acute comment by email from afar. Another good 'un has gone.

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 21d

Someone up there is trying to rain on Notts' parade! Against all forecasts - and while the rest of the country continues to enjoy late September sunshine - we've now had no fewer that two stoppages at Trent Bridge. Blue skies re-emerging, though, as I write. Covering the match for the Times.

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 22d

Visibility outstanding today: three hours after the exact moment of the autumn equinox, looking SW from this 1210-ft trig above Halldale in the White Peak, we made out the Long Mynd, 65 miles distant on the far horizon. With an anticyclone established, weather's now perfect for the Champo finale.

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 26d

Delighted my instinct was wrong and Surrey did not prevail in their epic with Notts. Nothing whatever against the Brown Hatters (some of my fondest boyhood memories are of the Oval) but crucial for the Championship that one side doesn't utterly dominate. Covering Notts v Warks for Times next week.

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 28d

Before a ball was bowled at the Oval today I'd emailed colleagues to say Surrey would win and that the title would thus very probably be decided by tomorrow afternoon. If only for the sake of restoring a hint of openness to Champo cricket, I fervently hope my prediction proves as fallible as ever.

Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · 28d

Which national sporting body in the world would give those teams threatened with relegation an invitation to rip up the rules and save their bacon one week from the end of a season? It almost defines conflict of interest. Leave 2026 untouched and spend winter agreeing change - if any - for 2027

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · Sep 15

The score is 8-2 to Surrey against Notts. This the number of England Test players per side, of course. Notts also have the present S African Test 'keeper. Surrey are not fielding an official overseas player but as usual have Worrall, the sometime Aus 1-Day international. David and Goliath, perhaps?

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · Sep 15

The final decisive moment in that magnificent Ashes series came when Warne dropped a straightforward catch at slip to reprieve Pietersen when still in single figures. Pressure gets to players - even to the best of Aussies. As Steve Waugh might have said: "You've just scattered the Ashes".

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · Sep 15

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

English Roundabouts

They’re making the roundabouts great again
by painting the flag of St George
to keep our circular road systems safe
from the dark, satanic hordes.

What do they want? Patriotic junctions!
When do they want them? Before it’s too late.
Good old-fashioned English roundabouts,
as decreed by Alfred the Great.

Behold the sacred intersection,
this blessed plot, this septic isle.
English roundabouts for English people,
draped in red and white and bile.

St George is cross, as well he may be –
whipped-up hate, he’s seen before.
Give way to the right, the road signs rage,
and the far right most of all.

Brian Bilston

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · Sep 11

Leics officially confirmed as promoted after their uniquely poor run of 22 successive seasons outside the top tier. A superb effort this year. They are candidates for Team of the Summer.

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · Sep 11

2016 tainted by that joke bowling that set up the Mddx dec and Yorks' agreement to keep attacking despite the fact they latterly should have fought for the draw. Som had every right to be very angry. The final day in 2010 had, in contrast, no contrivance. Much the better, more legitimate climax.

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yes, that 2010 finish was the best in the 26 seasons of two-divisional play to date. Three teams started the final day with real hopes of the title. Yorks blew it after inexplicably chosing to prepare a poor pitch in Leeds and Somerset couldn't quite get home. Notts, at the last gasp, triumphed.

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Neville Scott @nevillescott.bsky.social · Sep 8

If the forecasts are right most of the afternoon's play on both Wed and Thurs will be lost at Oval and New Rd. I'd predict, however, that Surrey will win if the equivalent of even 5-6 sessions prove possible overall in London. Thus vital that Notts win too in Worcester but play already hit by rain.

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