3 d. ago Cricket nerds love precedent so maybe England can channel spirit of Lord’s 2005

The parallels are imperfect but, as with Michael Vaughan’s Ashes winners, hyper-aggressive cricket with a tweaked approach in the second Test is the 2025 cohort’s only chance of winningTwenty years on, a montage of the 2005 Ashes still tingles the spine. Close your eyes and you can probably make your own, with an Embrace soundtrack if you want to be right on the nose. Chances are you’ll see Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff belting sixes with lusty abandon; Geraint Jones wheeling away after winning the epic Edgbaston Test; Ashley Giles calmly patting the winning runs at Trent Bridge; Flintoff’s messianic dismissal of Ricky Ponting at Edgbaston; Simon Jones detonating Michael Clarke’s off-stump at Old Trafford.All those moments came in England victories or winning draws. But no 2005 montage is complete without images of Ponting being cut below the eye or Justin Langer’s right elbow ballooning in real time. Both wounds were inflicted by Steve Harmison on the first morning at Lord’s,...

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6 d. ago England cricket legend Stuart Broad makes very telling comment about working for Channel Seven as he reveals what he was thinking during THAT viral Ashes moment

Cricket fans were left in stitches by the footage of Stuart Broad reacting to a disastrous moment for England in the first Test in Perth.

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7 d. ago They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben

Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggressionTrumpism’s most revealing and defining moments – not its most important, nor cruelest, nor most dangerous, nor stupidest, but perhaps its most illuminating – came earlier this autumn. In the course of a few weeks, the US president started showing everyone his plans for a gilded ballroom twice the size of the White House and then began unilaterally ripping down the East Wing to build it. Then, after nationwide protests against his rule, he posted on social media an AI video of himself wearing a crown and piloting a fighter jet labeled “King Trump”, which proceeded to bomb American cities and Americans with a graphically vivid load of human poop.He has done things 10,000 times as bad – the current estimate of deaths from his cuts to USAID is 600,000 and rising, and this week a study predicted his fossil fuel policies would kill anot...

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8 d. ago When is the next Ashes Test? TV channel, date and start time for Australia vs England

England will need to lick their wounds after a humiliating two-day defeat in the first Test

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1 week ago How to watch the Ashes: Start times, TV channel, live stream and first Test highlights

Australia host the 2025/26 series, which kicks off on Friday morning in Perth

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1 week ago Ashes 2025 live: Australia legend dropped by TV channel and England announce first Test team

England eye a first away Ashes victory since 2010-11, with Australia hit by injuries to Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood

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1 week ago How to watch the Ashes: TV channel, start times and streaming England v Australia online

England’s bid to regain the urn – and win a first Ashes series in Australia since 2010 – will begin in Perth on 21 November

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2 w. ago England vs New Zealand: TV channel and live stream for rugby today

Steve Borthwick’s side are slight favourites to win today

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2 w. ago How to watch England vs New Zealand: TV channel, live stream and kick

England are set to battle New Zealand in their next Autumn Internationals clash with Steve Borthwick's side aiming to continue their winning streak

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2 w. ago Poland v Netherlands, Croatia v Faroe Islands, and more: World Cup 2026 qualifying – as it happened

Slovakia beat Northern Ireland at the last to set up a winner-takes-all Group A encounter with Germany on MondayThomas Tuchel wants his England substitutes to channel any anger they feel at not starting into making the difference when they can because the team that win the World Cup will be defined by productivity off the bench.The head coach will prepare a heat-proof gameplan for the finals next summer when temperatures at many of the venues in the United States, Mexico and Canada are expected to be stifling and a major part will involve how best to use his substitutes. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Thomas Tuchel wants England substitutes to channel anger into World Cup victory

Coach hopes to match spirit of his 2021 Chelsea teamTuchel needs strong bench ‘after a long, long season’Thomas Tuchel wants his England substitutes to channel any anger they feel at not starting into making the difference when they can because the team that win the World Cup will be defined by productivity off the bench.The head coach will prepare a heat-proof gameplan for the finals next summer when temperatures at many of the venues in the United States, Mexico and Canada are expected to be stifling and a major part will involve how best to use his substitutes. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How to watch England vs Fiji: TV channel and live stream for rugby today

Steve Borthwick’s side look to build on opening Autumn Nations Series win over Australia

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3 w. ago Ellis Genge and England channel Fiji frustration ahead of unorthodox autumn challenge

Beaten for the first time by the Pacific Islanders when they last visited Twickenham, England’s stand-in captain has underlined the threat that Fiji will pose

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4 w. ago How to watch England vs Australia: TV channel and live stream for rugby today

Steve Borthwick’s side begin Autumn Nations Series against the Wallabies at Twickenham

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