Duncan Stone

Duncan Stone

@drcricket.bsky.social

Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council. Class - Culture - Environment https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone

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Alan Lester
@alanlester.bsky.social

The Byline Times has become a key primary source for future historians trying to understand the recurrence & rehabilitation of scientific racism after 80 years of post-Nazi quiescence. bylinetimes.com/edition/90/n...

bylinetimes.comNathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black RacismThe reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales rep...

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Mark Doidge
@markdoidge.bsky.social

The history of neoliberalism is one of public money being channeled to private corporations. What does Syed think happened in 2008 and what Austerity was for?

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

Matthew Syed writes that there “should be more bouts of unemployment” in his latest column. Maybe the Sunday Times and Radio 4 can shitcan him to put that theory to the test.

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Margot Finn
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social

Brian Cox: research system ‘cannot be used to engineer growth’. Labour 2026: Star physicist warns UKRI’s economic remit is causing “serious problems”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

researchprofessionalnews.comBrian Cox: research system ‘cannot be used to engineer growth’ - Research Professional NewsLabour 2026: Star physicist warns UKRI’s economic remit is causing “serious problems”

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Sasha Simic
@sashasimic.bsky.social

Nazi "Danny Tommo" is a privately educated bourgeois who was sentenced to 2 years in July 2016 for attempting to kidnap someone at knifepoint over £10,000 in drug money - a crime, the Judge noted, was "extraordinarily frightening" matched only by its "stupidity". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comPolice arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after ‘dinghy slashed in Channel’Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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Oxford Clarion
@oxfordclarion.bsky.social

‘Danny Tommo’, leader of the balaclava-clad blackshirt rallies, says he will travel to Piddington “in the coming days” following the Parish Council’s stunt referendum: “I want to hear about safety concerns for their women and children.” Tommo was jailed for two years in 2016 for a knifepoint kidnap.

Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social

It could have been very different, but the Keens Park Rangers FC youngsters stood firm against an experienced Ripley side for a well fought draw in their opening league match. 👏🏻👏🏻 keensparkrangers.com/2026/09/13/k... #grassrootsfootball in #Surrey

keensparkrangers.com"King's For A Day" - The KPR Match Report » Keens Park Rangers FCA new era for KPR dawned with hard fought win over visitors Parkfield at their new home of Woking Park in front of a record crowd of more than 190.

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Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social

A book for those who love, and hate, cricket! 🏏 😅

Fahad@13411fahad.bsky.social

there's a more recent book called "Different Class" by @drcricket.bsky.social which is really good. (don't worry your hate for cricket will remain intact; in fact it might give you more fodder for it, if anything)

Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social

A book for those who love, and hate, cricket! 🏏 😅

Fahad@13411fahad.bsky.social

there's a more recent book called "Different Class" by @drcricket.bsky.social which is really good. (don't worry your hate for cricket will remain intact; in fact it might give you more fodder for it, if anything)

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Laura Webster
@lauraewebster.bsky.social

We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.

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Steve Peers
@stevepeers.bsky.social

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

William Hayes@williamhayes.bsky.social

So if you protest a genocide you are automatically a "terrorist" but hold up a major shipping route while wearing balaclavas and you are a "protester" and the police "engage with you"? www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comDisruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protestImages appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.

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Adam Bienkov
@adambienkov.bsky.social

The utter hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch here, after banning myself and the late great David Hencke from Conservative Party conference last year. Needless to say my application to attend this year on behalf of Byline Times has still not been approved

Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social

Trip into #Guildford with #Ma today found us in M&S where she used to be a cleaner in the 1970s. An episode that gets a mention in the book, ‘mum’s stairs’ (even if a different colour today) remain a significant family memory. 😊

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social
@escapedexplorer.bsky.social

To be clear everyone involved in this should go to prison. This is not some petty "but the golf course was so nice beforehand" shit, this is "you are in open and flagrant violation of the law in that you lied to the court about your intentions and timelines" territory people.com/dozens-trees...

people.comDozens of Trees Quietly Toppled in D.C. Without Court Approval Ahead of Trump’s New Golf Course Makeover: ReportOver 60 trees were removed at East Potomac Golf Links before official approval for renovations was granted, the Washington Post reported Friday, Aug. 26. Preservationists argue the plans violate a law...

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Ross McNally
@rossmcnally.bsky.social

Everyone who isn't corrupted by fossil fuel money: this is disastrous, the country is on fire, people are dying and valuable habitat being obliterated. Harvests are poor, food price inflation will go through the roof and there's no water. Tice: let them drink English wine.

Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com

Reform’s Tice says people should stop tackling climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat

theguardian.comReform’s Tice says people should stop tackling climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heatDeputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to stop global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave

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Mic Wright
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

I will remember Rod Liddle for the fact that the lawyer who checked my book before publication had no issue with me writing that Liddle couldn’t be a teacher because he’d have had sex with the students. Why? Because Liddle wrote it in a national magazine.

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Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social

Compare this to the client #journalism in #cricket. Credit to some, who rightly questioned, debated and opposed #TheHundred (and Bazball). Yet too many couldn’t wait to jump on the money train once they’d sussed the way the wind was blowing, and still parrot shite to sustain it.

Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social

Compare this to the client #journalism in #cricket. Credit to some, who rightly questioned, debated and opposed #TheHundred (and Bazball). Yet too many couldn’t wait to jump on the money train once they’d sussed the way the wind was blowing, and still parrot shite to sustain it.

Duncan Stone
@drcricket.bsky.social

While there are long standing socio / cultural / societal issues at play, I do believe the difference in media reaction (be it outrage, resigned indifference, or implicit support) reveals much about who ‘owns’ each sport. Or, more accurately, who each, ultimately, ‘serve’.