He played in a team of absolute legends.
Gilchrist, Hayden, #Ponting, Bevan, #McGrath, #Warne, the Waugh brothers, #Damien Martyn, Gillespie, Lee, #Symonds. I don’t think #cricket has ever seen a more complete team.

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/4426151/damien-martyn-hospitalised-in-brisbane-illness-meningitis-former-australian-cricketer-test-odi-2003-world-cup-winner

🪷 Poet #JohnAddingtonSymonds​ is a Saint of #Antinous for shocking Victorians by openly promoting same sex love and most especially for writing about Antinous. #Symonds died in Rome on 19 April 1893. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/john-addington-symonds-saint-of.html 🪷
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MI5 refused to investigate ‘Russian spy’s’ links to Tories, says whistleblower

MI5 repeatedly refused to investigate evidence that an alleged Russian spy was attempting to cultivate influence with senior Conservative politicians
and channel illegal Russian funds into the party, a Tory member has alleged in a new complaint lodged with the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT).

Sergei Cristo, a Conservative Party activist and a former journalist with the BBC World Service, has lodged a complaint with the investigatory powers tribunal,
filing the case after corresponding with the chair of parliament’s intelligence and security committee, Conservative MP Julian Lewis,
who recommended he take the information to the authorities.

The committee’s Russia report claimed in 2020 that the security services had turned a blind eye to “credible evidence” of Russian interference
and Cristo’s allegations offer potentially explosive new evidence that confirms its findings.

Labour MP Ben Bradshaw said “allegations that the security services ignored evidence from a Conservative whistleblower exposing Russian infiltration at the highest levels of the party are truly shocking”
and claimed the “Conservative party’s Russia problem” was an ongoing threat to Britain’s national security.

Cristo says that it was reading the Russia report that made him “suddenly aware that maybe the story I had was more significant than I thought”
and, at Lewis’s suggestion, he wrote to Cressida Dick, then commissioner of the Met police.

He received a response from the counter-terrorism command (SO15) who said it was not a matter for the Met and advised him to take it to the IPT
– which oversees the security services
– which he has now done.

The allegations centre around the formation of a group called
🔸Conservative Friends of Russia 🔸in 2012, and its relationship with a Russian diplomat, #Sergey #Nalobin.

In August of that year, the Russian ambassador, #Alexander #Yakovenko, hosted a lavish launch party for the group in the gardens of his residence in Kensington
with guests who included the former minister of culture, media and sport, #John #Whittingdale,
and Boris Johnson’s now wife, #Carrie #Symonds.

The Russian government also funded an all-expenses-paid trip to Moscow
for a handpicked group of members including the future CEO of Vote Leave, #Matthew #Elliott.

Cristo says his suspicions about Nalobin, who was the political first secretary at the embassy, had been aroused two years earlier
when he was approached by the diplomat and they met at the Carlton Club.

When Nalobin learned that Cristo was a volunteer with the treasurers’ department of the Conservative campaign headquarters (CCHQ), he said he could
“make introductions to Russian companies who would donate money to the Conservative party”.

“I knew straight away that what he was suggesting was illegal under UK law,” Cristo wrote in a letter to Lewis last year.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/21/mi5-refused-to-investigate-russian-spys-links-to-tories-says-whistleblower?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

MI5 refused to investigate ‘Russian spy’s’ links to Tories, says whistleblower

Party member lodges a complaint about the security services ignoring attempt of Russian infiltration into the Conservatives

The Guardian
Andretti sfodera le armi: reclutato Pat Symonds

Pat Symonds, storico ingegnere di Formula 1, ha di recente lasciato il suo ruolo di CTO presso la FIA per rispondere alla chiamata di Andretti. La squadra americana non ha alcuna intenzione di abbandonare il suo sogno.

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F1 FOM: 'Pat Symonds vertrekt per direct bij FOM; 2026-reglement is namelijk rond'

De technisch directeur van de Formule 1, Pat Symonds, zal volgens Motorsport-Total binnenkort zijn afscheid aankondigen. Het medium heeft begrepen dat het vertrek al definitief is en dat heeft dan weer te maken met de voltooiing van het 2026-reglement.

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🪷 Poet #JohnAddingtonSymonds​ is a Saint of #Antinous for shocking Victorians by openly promoting same sex love and most especially for writing about Antinous. #Symonds died in Rome 19 April 1893. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/04/john-addington-symonds-saint-of.html 🪷
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Mol wijst naar bijzondere ophanging Mercedes W15: "Dat is wel echt een dingetje"

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🪷 Poet #JohnAddingtonSymonds​ is a Saint of #Antinous for shocking Victorians by openly promoting same sex love and most especially for writing about Antinous. #Symonds died in Rome 19 April 1893. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/04/john-addington-symonds-saint-of.html 🪷
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What an innings. Single handedly pulled Aus out of the gutter. #symonds
https://youtu.be/Fl0Oestz9Tk
From the Vault: Symonds sizzles in Sydney

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