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Sinn Fein won't take their seats only because they will not be hypocrites by swearing allegiance to the Crown. This nonsense should have been cleared up as part of the Good Friday Agreement. As things stand none of the 20% or so of the UK population who identify as Republican could ever sit as...

Yes to the last question, though Yorkshire still pick him. His batting helped secure Yorkshire's first championship win in thirteen months last week, but it was only against Derbyshire in Division 2, hardly fearsome opposition.

If I were a passenger on the train that closed its doors, and saw what happened to those left standing on the platform, I'd be outraged on their behalf and I'm sure most other passengers wouldn't object to lengthening their journey by a couple of minutes in the circs. Most people aren't as...

Has it ever been fun, even when novel?!

I'm thinking of moving into a one room flat, so if I forget something I can circle round until I find it (mind you, no guarantee of that. I swear I saw that darned thing in here two minutes ago!!)

England had the chance a few years ago to pick Simon Harmer, who had qualified to play for them years before South Africa showed interest, but chose not to (a) because the dearth of English-born spinners wasn't quite so bad then and, probably, (b} the Pietersen saga had a negative influence. Sam...

Being slightly facetious here, bur seeing how the whole area has been invaded at least part-time by media luvvies from the Smoke, what chance of a premium boat service linking Mousehole and Penzance Harbours? The Isles of Scilly Steamship Company have decades of experience persuading visitors to...

None of the six MPs in Cornwall (all Tories) voted, but then they are all expected to be ex-MPs by the end of next year.

One of those English no-balls would otherwise have got a wicket too. Australia deserved to win imo, with every player providing something, other than Warner. Duckett wasn't the only under-performer in the English side. Jimmy Anderson will remember this match no more fondly than his last Ashes...

Or a win by 347. Wonder how he or his lapdogs will try to spin it. The greatest travesty of Justice in Britisn history, I expect, and all the Tories who voted for his expulsion were motivated by being in hock to Rishi Sunak. So unlike Sirs Jacob Rees-Mogg, Michael Fabricant, Nigel Adams and...

The inquests took place over two months in 2021, and the jury declared the crash was an accident. This provoked a strong reaction from some relatives of the deceased, claiming the driver was a 'coward' for not attending, even though his mental state was known to be fragile, and, in any case...

'Tommy' Robinson was a nickname in Yorkshire days.<D

Boris Johnson XI managed 7, their opponents 354

I managed to have my working life without screens in front of my eyes for the most part. I am seriously considering going to have my eyes tested for reading glasses at least, having never had other than occasional sunglasses in my whole life. I'm 75, so had a good run :smile: Good genes must...

Nothing more annoying to an opposing side than a nightwatchman hanging around. Boland doesn't have much of a batting record, so another 5 runs in 35 minutes, say, mightn't be too bad, whereas another 25 runs in the same time could be telling. Mooen's going to have to give it his all, in the...

Rees-Mogg is referenced in almost all of the prominent Google entries on the subject, reflecting the lazy journalism of so much of the media in soaking up his biased and opinionated 'knowledge' on the subject and his willingness to spew it out night and day to these hacks. Anyone following this...

'Sir' Jacob Rees-Mogg may present himself as an expert on the British Constitution and the media toadies never challenge his self-assessment, presumably on the basis that an Old Etonian son of a Times editor who appears to still inhabit the Edwardian age must know his stuff, but he either...

When you assume talk about Holly and Phil is a debate about the relative singing merits of Buddy Holly and Phil Everly rather than two talentless nonentities.

Carey is proving a bit of a revelation, a much better player than Paine was. If England aren't careful Green and Carey will be as troublesome to them as Mitchell and Blundell were last summer. Khawaja too now he's shown he can bat in English conditions. Sibley would have been my choice as opener...

Well, quite! My concern is that if that happened innocent lives would be lost to his irrational, crazed cult followers attempting to free him. If he's on the Republican ticket next year I foresee the absolute end of meaningful democracy in the USA.