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@Engrugger We're all descended from those who survived the Black Death so I cherish the foolish hope I have an acquired immunity.

Joe Root moving up another record list. This is his 103rd 50+ score in Tests - equalling Ponting and Kallis in joint second. Only Tendulkar, with 119 such scores, is ahead of them.

Highest opening partnerships for England v India at Old Trafford: 225 - GA Gooch (116) & MA Atherton (131) - 1990 145* - Z Crawley (74*) & BM Duckett (65*) - 2025 #EngvInd

24 July 1989: John Major, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, succeeds Sir Geoffrey Howe as Foreign Secretary. Sir Geoffrey becomes Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister, a position vacant since the departure of Lord Whitelaw a year previously.

The woman who was arrested and beaten is the director of the Kinneret summer camp. Fifty Jewish French children, aged 10 – 15, were singing Hebrew songs on the plane. The @vueling airline crew said that Israel is a terrorist state and forced the children off the aircraft; they…

I would sooner look at Carole Hawkins and Sally Geeson.

At Cheltenham, Tom Hartley has followed his maiden first-class hundred with five Gloucestershire wickets... #CountyChampionship #GLOvLAN

Highest scores by Indian wicketkeepers at Old Trafford: 71 - MS Dhoni - 2014 58 - S MH Kirmani - 1982 54* - RR Pant - 2025 #EngvInd

Best bowling by captains at Old Trafford: 6-70 - R Benaud - Aus v Eng - 1961 5-63 - BA Stokes - Eng v Ind - 2025 5-66 - DL Vettori - NZ v Eng - 2008 5-121 - Shakib al Hasan - Ban v Eng - 2010 #EngvInd

Kane Williamson's 100 for Middlesex broke a sequence of 26 FC 100s which were all scored in tests. Most 100s by NZ batsmen (test 100s in brackets) 103 Glenn Turner (7) 71 Martin Crowe (17) 59 John Wright (12) 44 Bert Sutcliffe (5) 44 Kane Williamson (33) 39 John Reid (6)

Today, HM Treasury has 3125 staff members. When Lloyd George passed the People's Budget, that number was 26. (h/t @stephenfhwebb for that fact)

For all the Zohran fans, let’s check in on how the city-funded grocery store experiment is going in Kansas City… Maybe capitalism isn’t the boogeyman you think it is.

I see that James O’Brien has apologised for broadcasting an antisemitic trope & blood libel. This can incite racial hatred but presumably he wants to move on? Lucy Connolly apologised but he still supports her imprisonment. He should receive the standard he supports for others.

24 July 2019. Boris Johnson entered 10 Downing Street as the new British Prime Minister. He was the 2nd British PM to be born outside of the British Isles (in the USA). The other was Andrew Bonar Law who was born in Canada. Johnson left office on 6 September 2022.

BREAKING: The UN says that the reason they are not delivering over 950 trucks sitting in Gaza, is because the “routes are unsafe.” The IDF offered to escort the UN, to which they refused. Make it make sense.

#OTD 1911: Prime Minister H.H. Asquith is howled down by Unionist MPs in the House of Commons. Asquith who was attempting to outline the government's response to the House of Lords amendments to the Parliament Bill stood at the despatch box for 30 minutes before giving up.

Presuming they stand against him, They didn’t last year.

And the article has quotes from Farage saying they like him as Speaker.

And the Latvian Lithuanian Estonian people