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[The County Cricket Podcast @TheCountyCrick2]

Hampshire deserve every bit of backlash for this signing.
An utterly shameful decision by all involved and one which the fanbase very clearly didn't want to be made on their behalf either. Hope they do the right thing and rip up his contract before he steps foot on the field.

[Matty @mattylufc_]

The fact they’ve not made any announcements about signing Kuggeleijn and have just stuck him on the team sheet like no one would notice suggests even they know it’s terrible, which if anything makes it even worse because they’ve done it anyway

[No Context County Cricket @NoContextCounty]

The fact that a county are employing Scott Kuggeleijn genuinely makes me sick,disgusting decision

[Lola Katz Roberts @roberts_katz]

Thank you Arne. He must be relieved and so am I. Come on Liverpool. Let’s fucking attack this window and go again next season.

[Amy 🪬 @amyw69x]

I really couldn’t give a fuck if Rosie Jones is a woman, or gay, or disabled - I’m accepting of all those things. She’s just not fucking funny in the slightest 🤦🏻‍♀️

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[CULTRAS: The Culture Ultras @thecultraspod]

FIFA designating Egypt v Iran as the gay pride game

[Anfield Papers @AnfieldPapers]

🆕 Michael Laffey, 19, on day release from HMP Manchester after being jailed for dangerous driving, is named on the bench for tonight's match against Crystal Palace.

[James Gooday @JamesGooday]

@theedgar501 7 are absolute locks I think in Humphries, Littler, MVG, Bunting, Clayton, GVV and Rock. 8th is anyones heading into the worlds.. Price most likely you'd think. Harsh on Wade but it's entertainment they want.

[James Blunt @JamesBlunt]

You’re a little slow to the party.

[Jordy Meady @jordyymeady]

Not naming names but don’t leave your kid unattended while you eat tapas in Portugal and have to fake your daughters disappearance because you accidentally killed her by ploughing her with sleeping tablets so you can go get pissed with your mates!

But I’m saying nothing

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Introverts shut down when they're going through shit. They want no sympathy. No advice. No pity. No "fixing". All they want is silence. Some quiet to process it. They know how to pull themselves out. Just leave them alone for a while.

[Helen Morgan MP 🔶 @HelenMorganMP]

Reform UK planning to bring about the change Britain needs by recruiting all the people who broke it in the first place….

[James Gooday @JamesGooday]

@TheAnfieldWrap Long sleeve sports tops hit different

[Clare @Clarabell045788]

My husband and i have a secret to making our marriage last. Twice a week we go to a nice restaurant,drink a little wine,eat nice food, and enjoy a good conversation. He goes on Tuesdays and I go Friday.

[Adil 🔴 @AdilLFC_]

Anyone else find themselves just randomly singing the Jota song without any thought?

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

If you've been given six months left to live and passionately want to end your own life before you experience the most debilitating pain, embarrassing delirium, and unedifying decay - why should the state forbid you from doing so?

[James Gooday @JamesGooday]

This is going to be a transfer window for the ages! After Wirtz and Kerkez we still need 2 defenders, striker and midfielder!

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔴⚫️ Jarell Quansah has verbally agreed personal terms with Bayer Leverkusen!

Bayer and Liverpool are closing in on permanent deal, understand it will be worth £30m plus add-ons for the defender.

[Watch LFC @Watch_LFC]

We love you. That’s why we’re so hurt. But we are so proud of you and you will always be our boy, even if it’s painful right now.

Thank you for everything @TrentAA. Go and be the best possible version of yourself.