When Flintoff was injured and was down to bowlers at the other end, I thought to myself “the script is set up perfectly for him to produce a matchwinning innings”. But I didn’t think it would actually happen.
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Edgbaston day two
After two days’ play, 740 runs have been scored and 21 wickets have fallen. What kind of cricket is this?
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McGrath out for Edgbaston
Got to be good news.
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the decadent West
And I’m not talking about Sam.
Since the London bombings (and their sequel, which like so many sequels, failed to live up to the promise of the original) the press has, naturally enough, turned to the question ‘why did those nice British boys try to kill me?’ Or, to phrase it in a more objective sounding way, ‘why do young British Muslims feel so disaffected from British society?’
One answer given is that they see Britain (or The West) as decadent and immoral. Many journalists have been saying the same thing for years, rousing their readers to a state of righteous indignation with tales of the happy-slapping, binge-drinking, orgy-having, undisciplined, hoody-wearing Youth Of Today. I’ve thought the same thing myself – usually first thing in the morning, when reading the Style section of the Sunday Times. When faced with the shallow, trend-driven world of designer track-suits, Jude Law’s nanny,
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a cheerful thing
If someone told you they had scored 55 runs in an over at Lord’s, you’d think they were some kind of delusional fantasist (via Corridor of Uncertainty). I was grinning all morning at the fact that things like this can actually happen. A bit like a 15 year old being seven under par going into the final round of the (Women’s) Open.
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Nazism and Arab anti-semitism
An article exploring the links between early Islamist movements and the then National Socialist government of Germany. Via George Szirtes.