[Bones McCoy]

BBC is broadcasting baseball. Never watched a game before despite knowing a number of baseball metaphors; slam dunk, curve ball, born on third base, home run, do you pitch or catch?
Guess I prefer American turns of phrase more than their sports.

It's got quite a following in Britain, it's more than an excuse to get pissed like some others suggest here.

Quite a fun game.
I got involved in recreational play as a Postgraduate when the USA and Japanese students who stayed behind for summer organised games.
Some field positions are very specialised, but a cricket guy could do a decent job standing in the deep and swinging and hoping at bat.

I persuaded a few to have a go at cricket, but the rules and timescales aren't beginner friendly.

[The Weeping Angel]

Top thinking from Mason.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

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Caligas meas infeliciter affer! Vir est cunnus.

[Youngian]

‘Senior figures’ doing a lot of lifting.

[Boiler]

I heard that shite from Mason on PM. Only there he said "One a week since September".

[RedSparrows]

Lobby journalist games and INSIGHT.

Pfft.

[Boiler]

About time this was highlighted but I doubt they'll do anything about it, because ratings/clicks.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/ ... e-coverage

[Youngian]

A decade of chaotic Tory psychodrama has left most political lobby journalists unable to do their job in more normal political times. Reporting on dull ministers getting on with implementing policies to improve the country is Kryptonite for Mason, Watt, Kuenssberg etc.

[Andy McDandy]

The standard media response - "If you don't like it, get your news from somewhere else".

[kreuzberger]

Quite noticeably, I see that Farage's Broadcaster is now referring to Derry/Londonderry as Londonderry. It is as if they simply no longer care.

[Boiler]

As an aside:

Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie

Behave - it has been ever since the Berlin Wall came down and all the East Europeans joined in.

[davidjay]

As an aside:

Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie

Behave - it has been ever since the Berlin Wall came down and all the East Europeans joined in.

It was before then. Not as blatantly but there were still reciprocal arrangements happening.

[Abernathy]

Well, there always seems to have been at least one consistently rigid manifestation of politics : Cyprus always giving Greece full marks, and vice versa.

[Killer Whale]

[Sigh]

It really isn't surprising that countries with similar cultures should have similar tastes in formulaic pop music, is it?

[Youngian]

There was the General Franco jury knobling scandal that emerged in a Spanish TV report three decades after the 1968 contest. Spain's La La La beat Cliff Richard's Congratulations by a point but the Spanish jury had strangely awarded the UK with nul point.
Sir Cliff didn't seem to be at all vexed by this sordid affair.