Piyal Matilal

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[Abhishek Mukherjee @ovshake42]

Ireland have done enough to get a 3-match series from India next time.

[Erika Morris @ErikaMorris79]

We all thought we'd be talking about history today with Suryavanshi becoming India's youngest-ever T20I player.
Instead, it was Ireland who made history. #IREvIND

Their first-ever T20I win over India, and they fully deserved it 👏👏

India's selection is definitely worth questioning. Not giving Suryavanshi his debut felt like a strange call, and picking Prasidh Krishna ahead of Prince Yadav didn't look like the right decision either.

That said, let's not take anything away from Ireland. They were the better team. They played smarter cricket, held their nerve when it mattered, and took their chances.

India can look at the selection and where they got things wrong, but Ireland didn't win because of that. They won because they were the better side on the day.

A huge result for Irish cricket, and one that's thoroughly deserved.

[Steve Crossman @Steve_Crossman]

A huge shout to producer @ElliottBinks for making this happen, a proper piece of long term contact building to deliver a truly brilliant guest. This stuff doesn’t just happen! 👏

[Malcontent News @MalcontentmentT]

Russia will not run out of fuel. If you're waiting for that to happen, good luck.

Refinery output is not zero, it continues, and regions maintain strategic reserves.

Demand is outstripping supply. Some of that is panic buying. Some of that is that refinery output can match demand. Some of that is shortages of trucks, drivers, and railroad tanker cars. The situation is clearly getting worse at an accelerating rate.

What is happening is that the Russian leadership will have to make increasingly difficult decisions about who gets fuel and who doesn't.

Obviously, the government overlords, the security apparatus, and the military are the top priorities.

The next tier is emergency services, logistics, and farmers.

The third tier is everything else, including public services, as we're seeing.

There are three problems that will make the situation progressively worse. The first is that as prices rise, inflation increases, and some businesses, battered financially since the COVID pandemic, won't survive.

The second one is if the average Russian can't get to their jobs because they can't fill up their cars and/or public transit is restricted or not running, industrial output declines, and tourism collapses. One creates scarcity, the other creates unemployment.

The third one is if the supply issues start to impact logistics. The remaining fuel supply will have to be increasingly dedicated to fuel transport. How ironic.

As the fuel supply continues to drop, prices will continue to increase. The Kremlin can spend more on its fuel price mechanism or send the anti-monopoly flying monkeys to the independent filling-station chains. The first option requires the money printers to go bbbbrrrrrttttt, the second option makes the fuel shortages worse. Independents will simply close rather than operating at a loss to stay out of prison.

Russia will never run out of petrol or diesel, but it can be slowly choked out as the supply tightens.

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

#Wimbledon. My favorite Men's Singles R1:

Draper vs. Fritz
Wawrinka vs. Berrettini
Kokkinakis vs. Bublik
Sinner vs. Kecmanovic
Ruud vs. Hurkacz
Cilic vs. Medvedev
Rublev vs. Safiullin
Fonseca vs. Bautista
Fils vs. Collignon
Blockx vs. Zverev

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Odd set of results from a mega local councils by election night which shows why it’s hard to read into them. Labour gaining on Greens in some seats but not in others, Tories gaining seats from Lib Dems but losing to Reform. Ref gaining seats from both Lab/Con but swings against in other seats. Plaid consolidating momentum from May.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: The BBC has turned Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against them into a January 6 trial against Trump

The BBC is arguing that to win his defamation case, Trump has to prove he did not foment or incite the riot.

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Northumberland Park (Haringey) Council By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 44.3% (+12.4)
🌍 GRN: 42.4% (+13.1)
➡️ RFM: 5.4% (-0.6)
🌳 CON: 4.9% (-2.0)
🔶 LDM: 3.0% (-1.7)

No HSA (-21.2) as previous.

Labour GAIN from Green.
Changes w/ 2026.

[Danny Jamieson @DannyJamieson]

Tim Vickery really has been excellent on the BBC’s World Cup coverage

[Piyal Matilal @KKRLFClover]

@Tim_Vickery you said it. Final 15 mins. Be 1 all.

[Piyal Matilal @KKRLFClover]

@ErikaMorris79 I would have gone but wanted to see the fifa world cup. If England weren5 playing i would have loved those tickets.

[YouGov @YouGov]

Britons tend to believe Andy Burnham would make a better prime minister than opposing major party leaders

Burnham 43% vs Farage 23%
Burnham 38% vs Polanski 11%
Burnham 32% vs Badenoch 28%
Burnham 32% vs Davey 11%

[Piyal Matilal @KKRLFClover]

@Nick_Metcalfe That's also good news for Queens, Nottingham, Birmingham and Eastbourne. Means the bbc will still invest in that 6 week period of tennis

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

And imagine the tension now in this Brazil-Scotland game if Haiti weren't locked out by head-to-head

I honestly find it infuriating. A terrible development.

[Erika Morris @ErikaMorris79]

The world is literally burning.

The UK infrastructure and homes are built to retain heat and not reflect it.

We just aren’t set up to deal with these extremes.

Even traditionally hot countries in South Asia are getting hotter and hotter summers.

Don’t anyone tell me ‘its just summer’ when the UK average temperature for June is 16 degrees and today its 36 degrees.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

World Cup Fans Refuse Tips at U.S. Bars and Restaurants, Demand Companies Pay Workers Better

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Sadiq Khan has called for maximum temperature limits for work and schools

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

🚨🚨| 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃: England vs Ghana at the 2026 World Cup sets a 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃 for the BBC. 📺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The goalless draw peaked at 15.4 million viewers across BBC One and iPlayer which is more than any previous World Cup broadcast from the corporation.

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

📈 3,008 more teachers in secondaries & special schools
📈1,646 more teachers in colleges
📈Trainee teachers up 13%
📈 Teacher pay up 9.5%
📈 Record investment in schools

If standing up for state schools makes me a spiteful class warrior, I’ll wear it with pride.

#PMQs