Author (despite all). Pianist, cricketer (disputed). Dedicated to defeat of Donald Trump. Free campaign materials against him in prose, poetry and song at site
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Mohsin Naqvi's performance in charge of Pakistan cricket and its public face makes one nostaglic for the deftness and diplomatic flair of Ijaz Butt, which smoothed over so many mis-steps on its troubled tour of 2010.
🚨 Another humiliation for Pakistan cricket! 🤣
Mike Atherton reveals the PCB threatened to boycott the Lord’s Test after lunch if Sky Sports aired his interview with Imran Khan’s sons.
Sky went ahead with the broadcast — and Pakistan still took the field after lunch. 😂
Even Pakistan’s own cricket team doesn’t seem to take Mohsin Naqvi and PCB seriously. 🗿
facebook.com/groups/10288710… Figures which make the case for a Binface Popular Front in Clacton
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Special privilege to be with you in Karachi Ptress Club. Second part of tribute from 'White On Green'.
RIP Qamar a wonderful friend, host and mentor to me and @OborneTweets in Pakistan. Our tribute to him in 'White On Green' published 2016
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/06/cri… Never thought I would be published in Tribune when I worked for Denis Healey and it was ‘under enemy occupation’. But now glad to qualify as a radical after publication of new anti-Establishment history of the game everywhere. eandtbooks.com/full-circle-r…
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Suspending my long boycott of this medium, which has reduced it to its knees, to announce that my history of cricket everyehere not forgetting Bhutan is out today. Order it now to avoid disappointment from Waterstones: bit.ly/42sO7Io or Amazon: bit.ly/41LD4dh
I think that the hold is financial not sexual and that Putin is the ultimate creditor of the Dotard’s mismanaged and indebted empire. However, there is a very tenable counter-theory that Putin does not need any specific leverage over the Dotard to turn him into his “useful idiot”
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And hey, an incompetent timeserver with alcohol issues … that’s a Putin kind of guy!
The Guardian capriciously refused my thoughts on the Starmer-Dotard relationship but fortunately you have read most of them here first and now the online journal Comment Central,
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which has often given shelter to my homeless brilliance, has printed the full version which you can see on this link: commentcentral.co.uk/i-have-…
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These notes and the ascent of global literature were interrupted again by a stroke. Like the one which consumed you all with anxiety some years ago it was not much of a stroke, more a push to midwicket than a full blooded straight drive
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Fortunately, I had prepared in advance a fine exordium which follows.There’s been multiple speculation from conspiracy theorists, readers of actual books, serious authors of actual books, sources, well-informed sources and even sources with actual knowledge of the matter speaking
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and it got the same reception as last time. I think they are too young to remember the speaking clock, the young lady with the cut glass accent and the pips every ten seconds.
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An ambulance whisked me to the same hospital which treated the last one and when they dug out my old notes, I repeated my previous jest: As the speaking clock used to say “at the third stroke your… time… will be… up”,
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