Jim Hulbert (@jim_hulbert) 's Twitter Profile
Jim Hulbert

@jim_hulbert

Mostly cricket and politics stuff, with added Simpsons references and a bit of imperial history. M4C PhD on comparative colonial violence on frontiers. He/him.

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Boxing very hard to take seriously in this Olympics. That feels an extremely harsh decision. Thought GBs Richardson might have got that one to even things up a bit... #Paris2024

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Extremely brave of Graham Thorpe's family, and they will help very many people by being so open at such a difficult time. RIP Graham. Beautifully done Mike atherton

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This would be fine but that was in hindsight one perhaps the second best era for properly fast bowling in history. If anything it's no surprise people were attracted to it. Funny how he isn't mentioning the sidebottom, bresnan, praveen kumar eras.

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This is such a mental attack line given that under them the trains barely fucking ran because they were on strike all the time. This is how negotiations work

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Counterpoint : a load of middle aged blokes on a WhatsApp group probably know less about sport science and injury prevention than professionals in the field.

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Obviously the bots that follow me won't care, but am attempting to spend less time on here to avoid lining the obvious dickhead's pockets. On BlueSky instead, which is a nice contrast. Needs some cricket posters though. bsky.app/profile/jimhul…