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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 06/08/2026

You call it the transfer window. I call it "very rich people making terrible house moves": Goodbye Athens, Paris, northern Spain and Bologna; hello Hull, the middle of Saudi Arabia, Moscow and Watford!

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 06/08/2026

After some AI models started going rogue in tests, there are unconfirmed reports that Brendon McCullum is being lined up to coach them.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 03/08/2026

Another summer, another sporting (mis)adventure: Next month I'll be competing in a Kyrgyz belt wrestling ('Alysh') tournament at the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan. I have never done anything even remotely like this before. 📚 Not unrelatedly, I will hopefully have another book out next year!

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 24/07/2026

Think I'll stick to the home shirt this year.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 19/07/2026

Last time I saw a Brar this expensive was in Victoria's Secret. #ENGvIND 🏏

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 02/07/2026

I like pink huts and I cannot lie.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 25/06/2026

If Brazil-Scotland wasn't tasty enough, next on the World Cup menu is some Czechs-Mex. #MEXCZE #CZEMEX

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 21/06/2026

Whereas for England, Ollie Robinson has gone in the opposite direction.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 21/06/2026

"My dad's gone to the North Norfolk coast to sort out his ear hairs." "Trimingham?" "No I think they use tweezers."

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 17/06/2026

Confidently predicting #NED 🇳🇱 and #USA 🇺🇸 to make the semi-finals of the #WorldCup2026. If everyone was playing cricket instead. No surprises in a #NZL 🇳🇿 vs. #RSA 🇿🇦 final... ...but while #ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and #AUS 🇦🇺 crash out in the round of 16, dark horses #GER 🇩🇪 and #CRO 🇭🇷 fight their way into the quarters.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 13/06/2026

Something else lovely has happened: my pachira tree suddenly has another little pachira tree sprouting out of its trunk. They call pachiras "money trees" – so I guess mine now has a side hustle?

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 11/06/2026

[Football fans at 2am on Sunday morning watching Haiti vs. Scotland, naturally paying close attention to the Haitian players' right hips] Hey! That depicts the 1803 Battle of Vertières! How dare Jean-Ricner Bellegarde invoke revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines without Fifa's permission!

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 09/06/2026

I thought the U2 goalkeeper played for Morocco?

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 08/06/2026

I've spent a lot of my life measuring experiences by how far they are away from home, and I haven't been the most patriotic person. But there's something about England's little old-fashioned seaside towns that I now absolutely love. This is Cromer in Norfolk, on a drizzly June day. Nowhere lovelier.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 06/06/2026

I've just realised what bat Emilio Gay uses. Surely his sponsors can make him some customised Gay-Nicolls stickers for the next Test? #TheCricket #ENGvNZ 🏏

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 29/05/2026

A nice thing happened yesterday – the Eurasian Creative Guild, who I've translated and edited some books and poems for over the years, awarded me the Jonathan Fryer Medal for promotion of Eurasian culture. I wish more Brits had a chance to see a bit of Central Asian art, and read their stories.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 18/05/2026

Thought Jamie Overton spoke really well on the @somersetccc.bsky.social #CountyChampionship live stream yesterday, about the IPL and life as an international cricketer. His co-commentator Winnie definitely has potential too... 🏏

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 16/05/2026

Farmer sells his tractors as a retirement plan. He's going to put some of the money towards a ventilation device for his kitchen, because he's an ex-tractor fan.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 11/05/2026

Tuffers and Alison Mitchell for my depression treatment, but we don't judge.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 04/05/2026

I've also ridden around Kaindy Lake on a horse! I was told my horse had a long name that began with something like 'Tolga...', but maybe I misheard Kulager 😊

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 29/04/2026

Sadly though the court still gave him 18 months for that hair.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 26/04/2026

Friends fear that what began as a single impulse-buy monstera plant has quickly become three more monsteras, a dracaena plant, a pachira tree, and six mini seed nurseries growing (hopefully) four different kinds of West African and Portuguese peppers. Norwich has never looked so tropical.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 25/04/2026

My adopted county Norfolk has form in this too @levparikian.bsky.social. Care to guess?

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 23/04/2026

One of my cooler cricketing claims to fame is once taking 1-41 (and a boundary catch) in Ed Smith's garden.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 20/04/2026

Who is your favourite cricketer named after the Viking conquests of northern Europe, mine is Danish Malewar.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 17/04/2026

Man arrested for stealing aftershave. Police have reported that as soon as the offender was nicked, it became a sting operation.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 15/04/2026

They should have gone to Uzbekistan instead, for shashlyks there you wouldn't mind spending £1,500.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 14/04/2026

You're watching the IPL, my friend in Kabul is sending me clips of Afghan left-arm wristspin prodigies, we are not the same.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 23/03/2026

Please enjoy this lovely red-legged partridge.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 13/03/2026

Bucket list experience unlocked – an Uyghur meal with my eldest. Until I can take him to Urumqi, or at least Almaty, it will have to be Cambridge...

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 24/02/2026

People complain about CAPTCHAs, but nothing shows you're human more than humuspukes and a soundboner.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 24/02/2026

Waqar Younis on comms for England vs. Pakistan reminds me of my favourite ever T20 scorecard. Nice of his opening partner to let him bowl the first over... #T20WorldCup #T20WC #PAKvENG #ENGvPAK 🏏

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 16/02/2026

Or you're getting no sympathy here 😆

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 14/02/2026

A lot of immigrants claim they're fleeing ISIS, but really they're just lying dangerous useless men. Have I got this right Stephen?

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 09/02/2026

Pretty sure that was Cat Stevens, but sure, "Socrates"...

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 03/02/2026

Is it because he doesn't like it when she does impressions of him?

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 22/01/2026

Never have your morning meal with a Kazakh: their breakfasts are tangy as.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 21/01/2026

If something is not rare, you don't have to also say that it isn't unique.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 15/01/2026

Not football – or professional(!) – but I played international cricket for @ukrainecricket.bsky.social last year in a kit that I designed. I did better at designing the jersey...

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 13/01/2026

Can I interest @secondmentions.bsky.social in a "Marmite to Dove soap conglomerate"?

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 11/01/2026

Oh sure, but when I drop 6 lamps in *my* home I "can't have Negronis any more".

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