Christiaan Jonkers

Rare Books, Wine, Cricket, Music. Views seldom my own.

[Christiaan Jonkers @cpwjonkers]

A goulish source work for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. https://t.co/lmOyp7M8bV

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Why is Boris Johnson always running? Positively Widmerpudlian.

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@Athersmike 2/2 to score at 3.2 per over. What reason had England to think they could score at 3.6 over a prolonged period? The chances of victory without a positively heroic contribution were remote and likelyhood of defeat, high. It was a prosaic decision, but a sound one.

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@Athersmike 1/2 It’s seems a popular view, but one belied by the figures. New Zealand, with the cushion of a 100 run lead on first innings and every incentive to seek quick runs safe in the knowledge they had precious little chance of loosing the match, were only able...

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Not since WG Grace has anyone questioned being bowled so obviously as Virat Kholi seems to do.

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@PictureSporting Right on a length. That’s just uncallled for.

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@IanYoung04 @arusbridger @BBCNewsnight @BBC Are there any heavyweight politicians nowadays?

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@Athersmike And there was me thinking wouldn’t “I saw Sir Geoffrey...” scan better.

[Jarrod Kimber @ajarrodkimber]

Holding’s greatest spell (and that’s saying something)

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@theoldbatsman I must have bowled the first ball of the season many times. I can’t remember any of them.

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@JHowellUK what an utter, utter waste of space. What can you possibly have that is more important. After all, the golf club must be closed.

[That’s So Village @ThatsSoVillage]

hahahahaha happy Monday!!

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@anthony_mcgowan I once won a ‘dance off’ by throwing in a bit of Cossack. It was contrived to make me look ridiculous, so I thought I might as well go the whole way.

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@anthony_mcgowan Congratulations Tony. I’ll be pestering you to buy your manuscripts soon.

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@anthony_mcgowan Statistics and data are often confused. Data is fact based but can be inaccurately gathered. Statistics is the management of data, but is only as useful as the data is accurate and analysis is rigorous and relevant (which it is often not) but can be akin to prescience when it is.

[Andrew Lycett @alycett1]

The nice people from @BloomsburyBooks have sent me this to be used as a 'twitter banner' for my book Conan Doyle's Wide World - out 20 Feb

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@SarahCrossan So then general election boils down to a choice between one extreme regime or another. #notgoingtoendwell

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Another classified document which merely reveals what everyone knew already.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Be careful what you wish for ‘The document, marked “official sensitive” — requiring security clearance on a “need to know” basis — reveals that 29 of the 33 areas most vulnerable to job losses if the UK crashes out of the European Union voted leave.’

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@theoldbatsman Is the principle of getting ones foot to the pitch of the ball now completely moribund?

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@JHowellUK Furthermore, your use of syntax is woeful.