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The above being said, Sundar is looking by far the most dangerous spinner in either team so far this series.

Well, not far away. The numbers show that there clearly is talent there, but sometimes he is deeply frustrating.

Yes. Yes, it is.

This is turning into the absolutely optimal platform for Brook to come in and cause utter mayhem later. ... which means he'll probably be out for a golden duck.

On the above topic and related to current events: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd2de8zz5go Jeffrey Epstein's long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell is meeting a top justice department official as pressure grows on the Trump administration to release files linked to the disgraced financier's sex trafficking network. The meeting will take place in Tallahassee, Florida, where Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, the BBC's US partner CBS News reports. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche had said he planned to speak to Maxwell about any information she had on other people whom Epstein may have helped sexually abuse girls. Maxwell's lawyer told the BBC that she was looking "forward to her meeting", which could help determine whether she will testify before Congress. The latest developments come as interest has switched back to Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, a convicted sex-trafficker in prison for helping Epstein abuse young girls. Calls have grown from the public - including President Donald Trump's loyal supporters - and lawmakers for the justice department to release files related to the Epstein case. "If Ghislaine Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say," Blanche wrote in a post on X earlier this week. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump during a May briefing that his name appeared in DOJ documents related to the Epstein case.

It's a theory I've heard before and one that does frankly make some sense - goodness knows the ideology needs to be neutralised somehow and history shows it's often taken some pretty dark times to do so. That being said, there's no guarantee that a. it will work and b. if it does, we won't be here in a few decades needing the same horrible things to happen again.

Stokes is an engine.

Good question. But I don't begrudge anyone the right to withhold their labour. It's a valuable right that has been fought fiercely for. On Paramount+, I would guess. Of course, I absolutely would not float the option of sailing the high seas for it too... Yeah, and that's just one facet of the demographic crisis on the horizon and closing fast.

Too few. "We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." - John F Kennedy I just fear that sentiment will only be held as truly important by enough people when it's too late.

I don't think so, he's chosen to go out there. Ideally though you'd mix it with bouncers.

It does. Something that places like France appear to grasp rather more than the UK does.

Not sure if this is bravery or madness from Pant.

My irony meter was clearly broken this morning, fair play. I'm sure they've checked it with the legal eagles beforehand. Either way, the reaction will be fun to witness.

Tbh If it is, then it's rather savvy because they win regardless of course of action taken by the parties they're trying to provoke.

I'm pretty sure you're right here. Bait, trap, neutralise.

Pant confirmed with broken foot. Big loss for India.

Bloody hell Fantastic stuff. I just hope Parker and Stone have their legal teams warmed up.

Yeah, exactly, hence my thoughts that there is no good solution that exists right now. You're also spot on with the second paragraph, the only thing I have to add there is that on this matter it is already "one world or no world", the effects just aren't apparent enough yet to be clear and obvious to everyone who needs to know. One day rather soon, they will be. And then people will have too make that choice.

Mixed feelings. On the one hand, it's likely that the only ones that will win from this are the lawyers, too the detriment of both the smaller nations and the future we all share. But on the other, there has to be a better enforcement mechanism to ensure that the self interested and nationalistic can't keep doing what they're doing, and the Paris Agreement doesn't do enough there, so what other existing mechanism is better than at least trying to hit them in the wallets? I honestly don't know. NB. Trump lackey with their usual ignorant jingoist rhetoric at the bottom there, I see.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyq921zqqzo The White House has pushed back against reports that President Donald Trump is among hundreds of names that appear in justice department documents relating to the late convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The claims were "nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media", a White House spokesman said. If that's true, then there's no harm in making such files public. Is there, Mr Spokesman?

It's a true shame that the world can seemingly only hyperfocus on one humanitarian crisis at a time, when there are clearly and obviously so many.

Watergate worked because the both the evidence and source were so compelling and moral compasses were such that even Nixons own party turned on him. Sadly, I can't see the same being true today, seeing that Trump has already been allowed to get by with acts that make Nixon look clean by comparison. The end result of there being no "single point of truth".

This is another plausible theory tbh. Whatever the cause, it is rather important that such tribal upheaval is minimised as much as possible, given the increasing levels of damage such upheaval can now cause.

I would like to think that the vast majority of people do have at least one eye on the future and would like to have one where no other human suffered (or at least suffered less). The unfortunate thing is that there appears to be so many ways to get that wrong and so few to get it right, and ending up with big trouble through well-meaning ignorance will have the same effect as steering into it through direct malice. So, at the end of the day, some unity on how we move forward, that goes past politics and demographics, really needs to be agreed and acted upon.

I can see the tinfoil hats from here. Must be the way the sun reflects off them. On the general topic, the principle seems sound but as other people have said, let's see how it works in practice.