Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

The least pleasurable 6-fer ever. With each appalling wicket, you can see Stokes sensing his Ashes dreams drifting away.

I started a Substack. It's therapy-focused, with a bit of (very) amateur philosophising thrown in. I'll be honest, it's pretty niche. But if you've ever asked, ‘I wonder why I’m like this?’, then do give it a go substack.com/@nickcampionth…

Quite a surprising development in international cricket. Test Match Special BBC Sport

It turns out The Times' beer writer's favourite pub is also my favourite pub... thetimes.com/life-style/foo…

This is just awful. I don't really do heroes - but sometimes the ones from your childhood stay with you. RA Smith & IVA Richards were mine. Lost count of the times I've watched The Judge cut a ball with unparalleled ferocity or battled the quicks with rare courage. Devastating.

I've been thinking about the value of poetry in therapy. It made me wonder if you, my fellow Twitterers, have any poems/artworks/songs/films etc that spoke to you and stayed with you, offering a new way of being understood or of seeing the world? nickcampiontherapy.substack.com/p/connection-b…

England’s opener today, Zak Crawley, and number 11 Adil Rashid have each batted 251 times in first class cricket in their careers. Adil Rashid has a better first class batting average. #SLvsENG

People often wonder why the abused stay with their abusers, or why children furiously defend their apparently uncaring parents. This new post ponders the origins of this, looking through an object relations lens, specifically via Fairbairn nickcampiontherapy.substack.com/p/but-why-go-b…

In my latest Substack, I’m thinking about how some interpretations can come a little too easily – you know, the client is always very busy so the therapist response is ‘What are you running away from?’. But is this doing the client a great disservice? substack.com/home/post/p-18…

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let me get this straight a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

If those astronauts go around the moon and can find no trace of Lisa Stansfield’s baby then I really think that’s it, we’ve exhausted all lines of enquiry

How is that one? James Anderson 🔥🔥🔥 🌹 #RedRoseTogether

Things you love to see. Glad Key and McCullum will be keeping an eye on the counties this year...

I started thinking about unconditional love, then I started writing about it, and it was quite hard to stop. It seemed simple at first and then not so simple by the end. I’m sure it’s meant to be the other way around… Is unconditional love even possible? substack.com/home/post/p-19…

When you see your taxes being spent on feeding children instead of bombing them.

First game of the new season. At least 45 years of this palaver. More bandages every year - but still very excited.