Gloucester Saint

Yeah, a false widow would be more dangerous and offer more bite than any of those three options. Unlike Damian Downs, a spider would actually move as well sometimes.

Win by 28 runs. Fuller 4 wickets, Currie, Baker and Wood all bowled well, good catching. Northants in the final.

Missed his hat-trick.

Boundary a ball needed now - superb over Baker. Currie’s caught and bowled that! I was looking for a boundary down the ground.

Dawson slowed his pace and held it back. Fuller only two and wicket off last over. Notts still have a chance but Hants on top. Less so after Fuller with Dawson snared Moore’s cheaply.

Good power play, just 37 off it. Dawson on. Notts have wickets in hand but getting behind the rate already.

Hopefully he’ll save it for the final should we get there.

George Munsey gone! 5th highest scorer this competition. Good field placement as he’s scored a lot of runs square-leg, Wood gets the length right and Stubbs pouches the catch.

Bollocks, Stubbs lame scoop and out. Cartwright next.

Amir and Stone quality but agree their other bowlers are very poor. Hard to know how Pennington got into the Test squad last year, 5-6 mph short of any penetration and doesn’t move it much in the air or off the pitch. Their two spinners Linde and Howell (who we know well) are cannon fodder.

Vince gone for 59, but good time for Cartwright or Stubbs. I’d go Stubbs. Yep, it’s him.

50 for Vince, great crowd catch in the Hollies corner. Linde as much use as a chocolate fireplace.

Weatherley different player in white ball, but there was some movement early 9n to contend with against Amir and he coped. Majes you wonder how he’s struggled in red ball.

Love the keeper’s optimism on the first - ‘catch it’, in the 6th row of the Hollies maybe. But a chance later on that side, albeit tricky off Vince. Weatherley 50 - well played.

Need to use their feet to Howell and hit him over the top.

Weatherley much happier in white ball, motoring now.

Better now, Weatherley has worked out that Pennington is a Vestergaard - tall but zero pace.

Not the best start but early days.

Bit awkward for Ed.

Mahmood apparently. Safest with the markets but she’s calmed things down a lot further at the Home Office. His other safe pair of hands, Yvette Cooper, it’ll be interesting to see where she ends up. Streeting, what prize for not standing? Share your cynicism on Rayner and also Miliband (Ed variety, not David who might turn up via peerage). Although Streeting already cut a 60% swathe through NHS England’s staffing and the DOHSC merger and waiting lists coming down albeit not across the board so only so much harm she could do. Allisder Heath has some front in the DT. Yes, the same one who wanked off over Truss’s budget (the greatest in a generation apparently) and Truss herself. I don’t think I’ll put much store in his opinions. Nor the Mail who ditto. Keynes stopped working in the 1970s and the Thatcher levers haven’t been working for quite some time. Burnham worries me on the economy but economics goes in cycles.

Writing on the names is too small to read but back to Attlee?

There’s an appetite for change for Burnham in a way there never really was for Starmer but he’s got little margin for error. He can tweak around taxes to generate a bit more change but he’ll need to use the scalpel on the welfare budget https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/what-can-andy-burnham-actually-do/ Interesting piece by the Conversation on what he might do https://theconversation.com/how-andy-burnham-may-try-to-give-the-uk-economy-a-boost-in-his-10-year-plan-286207. His initial statements are bold and it’s hard to see the fiscal headroom he’s got to deliver it with. As for Farage, he’s very tarnished now by the bung, money laundering and other scandals, more to come out as well is the rumour. Whatever they’re doing in the polls at the moment, they’re going to get hit by tactical voting in an actual GE which is why Farage gets so tetchy with YouGov. They’ll get a Lib Dem+ amount of seats next time which very impressive from where they’ve come from but no-one is collaborating with them for power. Enjoyed seeing Badenoch, Starmer and Davey queuing up to take the piss out of Farage in Starmer’s final PMQs. Even their own MPs were laughing. Not the same core base without Farage as leader and would lead to lower turnout as some don’t vote normally but Reform are damaged anywhere beyond their base with him as leader. Coalitions likely but they are too toxic for the Tories to consider let alone anyone else. Not sure he’s the ‘change, just any change’ for enough people now.

What that shows @Holmes_and_Watson is my first (nearly) 20 years of life = 3 PMs Last 10 years = 7 PMs

Being a Trump whisperer didn’t exactly help Starmer domestically in a political sense although it did help the UK’s interests when Trump was re-elected and had momentum. The Iran war has hurt Trump and he’s banging on about election fraud yet again without evidence because he knows one or both of the houses are going Dem in November (probably Congress). I wouldn’t needlessly pick a fight with him but if he wants to back his populist puppet Milie (beyond the huge sums of US taxpayers funds he’s already gambled on him) on the Falklands then a robust form of fuck off will go down well.

Seen footage from the 1970s when first involved with Charles where she seemed to be chain smoking and has said as such apparently in her 20s, said she gave up over 20 years ago.