Jamie Patrick

Cricket. Wine. Cricket. Wine. 33. Medium pacer and obdurate classical batsman. WSET 3🍷🍶
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[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

@TeleCricket @scyldberry "Until recently Lord’s was the ground of grounds, but it has plummeted down the list because of its pitches, at least the fine architecture has not disintegrated."

Ummm, come again subs?

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

The worst part is Arday’s PhD thesis, which, if the media and the entire DEI regime had been honest for even a moment, should have ended this saga almost as soon as it began.

It is bad enough that the title of the thesis contains a grammatical error. What is infinitely worse is that the error itself was imported from a thesis he plagiarized. In the original, the apostrophe in “student teachers’ reflective practice” is correct because the reflective practice belongs to the student teachers. Arday then rearranged the wording, apparently to make the title look less obviously plagiarized, but was so careless in his deception that he left the apostrophe behind even though “student teachers” was no longer possessive.

And perhaps most damning of all, this thesis supposedly passed through the entire academic apparatus of supervision, review, assessment and examination without anyone noticing a glaring error in the title. It’s almost as if no one ever read the thing. They were handing out PhDs like candy and now they blame Nathan Cofnas for pointing it out.

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

@SouthernRailUK So why have you asked for all of that detail?

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

@SouthernRailUK Mobile phone
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[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

@SouthernRailUK It was submitted within 28 days. This is not a delay repay claim, this is a complaint against Southern's decision not to reimburse.

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

@SouthernRailUK Can't submit complaint re refund over Purley sinkhole issue 14/06. Form permanently buffers saying 'submitting'.

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

@jamierkennedy Heading up on Sunday for Open crowning day - where should we camp?

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Totally accept Farage is entitled to year round, 24-hour-a-day protection from the usual suspects and will need it for the rest of his life.
Security doesn’t come cheap and he will have got through that £5million in ten years.
Therefore I can’t understand is why the Home Office withdrew 70% of the security funding which effectively forced Farage into the arms of a crypto king.
Even going into a pub for a quick beer is damned risky when you hold Farage’s populist views.
The report cutting his protection needs being published. Perhaps Farage could lay his hands on a copy.
I suspect it will help his case in the Court of Public Opinion.

[The Bottom Corner @thebottomcorna]

The last time we played PSG, Partey missed the first leg.

Saka was 50% fit. We were missing Havertz and had to use Merino as a striker.

Gabriel missed both legs. Partey missed the first leg. Calafiori was not fit for the first leg and half fit for the second leg.

We didn't have Eze, Hincapie, and Gyokeres as well.

And we could still have won if they didn't have Donnaruma who had an unbelievable performance.

All that has changed. We are stronger. We are going into the match with the demon of not haven't won the league in 22 years off our backs.

We are winning. Believe guys.

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

Ooh look at us all being friends again

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

@LucyMPowell Resign.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things.
I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation.
Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right.
On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating.
I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

Aged just 22 years and 133 days 🤯

[JK @thejokerboxing1]

@samuel_leeds Why’s Gervinho on your plane?

[Olly Tennis 🎾 🇬🇧 @Olly_Tennis_]

🥹🔥 9 years ago today, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer played their last Major Final

#AO26 #AusOpen

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

@NoContextCounty Sibley - Surrey
Compton - Kent
Hameed - Notts
Root - Yorks
Northeast - Glam
Bethell - War
Rew J - Som
Dawson - Hants
Robinson - Suss
Porter - Ess
Jimmy - Lancs

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

Three Irish friends were drinking in their local pub.

Donal sighed and said, “Lads, I think me wife is cheatin’
on me with an electrician.”

The other two friends were shocked to hear this.

“Why? What makes you think that?" asked Conor.

“Well,” Donal replied, "I found a pair of wire cutters under the bed and they're not mine.”

Conor sighed too, and after a long gulp of his Guinness said, “Lads, I think me wife is cheating on me with a plumber.”

The third man, Oisin, said, “And what might make you think that?”

“Well", Conor said, “I found a wrench under the bed and it's not mine.”

Oisin sighed, looked down at the floor and confessed, “Lads, I think me wife is cheating on me with a horse.”

Donal spit out his beer as Conor shouted, “A horse! Jaysus and mercy, how could you think that?”

Oisin chugged the rest of his Guinness and said, "Well,
I found a jockey under the bed and he's not mine".

[WG RumblePants @WG_RumblePants]

I’m not sure there’s anyone else who commands the same respect within the English domestic system. At least I can’t think of anyone.

He’s a proven Director of Cricket with exemplary credentials, integrity and unparalleled experience. If the ECB don’t turn to him now, they’re mad

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Jamie Patrick @jamiepatrick266]

WAUGH M: OUT
BAIRSTOW J: NOT OUT

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

Is that a HIT Wicket?

A controversial decision made by the third umpire when Mark Waugh hit the stumps with his bat after playing a delivery from Shaun Pollock.